electricsheepafrica/africa-ghana-census-data-employment-df43326d

Census data-Employment | Africa (Ghana official open data)

175 rows - 1 Africa country - 2010 - Repackaged by Electric Sheep Africa

TL;DR

This dataset packages one official CSV resource from Ghana as ML-ready Parquet. The source file is the provenance boundary; all usable indicators or tabular columns from the resource stay together in this repo.

About the source

• Source: Census data-Employment
• Publisher: Official government open data portal
• Resource: Employed persons 15 years and older by occupation, type of locality and region
• Format: CSV
• License: Open Data Commons Open Database License
• Packaging mode: tabular_resource

Geographic coverage

1 Africa country:

Country	Rows	First year	Last year	Name
GHA	175	2010	2010	Ghana

Indicators or Resource Contents

• This source file is packaged as a normalized tabular resource.

Schema

Column	Type	Description	Example
source_record_id	string	Stable row identifier for tabular resources.	fd7a782c-a382-4826-8743-b31384dee4ab:0
country_iso3	string	ISO3 country code.	GHA
country_name	string	Country name.	Ghana
year	Int64	Observation year.	2010
employed_persons_15_years_and_older_by_occupation_type_o	string	Source column.	Occupation / Type of locality
unnamed_1	float64	Source column.	``
unnamed_2	float64	Source column.	``
unnamed_3	float64	Source column.	``
unnamed_4	float64	Source column.	``
unnamed_5	float64	Source column.	``
unnamed_6	float64	Source column.	``
unnamed_7	float64	Source column.	``
unnamed_8	float64	Source column.	``
unnamed_9	float64	Source column.	``
unnamed_10	float64	Source column.	``
unnamed_11	float64	Source column.	``
source_period_start_year	Int64	First year inferred from source resource metadata.	2010
source_period_end_year	Int64	Last year inferred from source resource metadata.	2010
source_period_label	string	Human-readable period inferred from source resource metadata.	2010
source_provider	string	Publishing organization.	Official government open data portal
source_dataset	string	Source package title.	Census data-Employment
source_resource	string	Source resource title.	Employed persons 15 years and older by occupation, type of locality and
source_package_id	string	CKAN package UUID.	5c995f2e-e7ed-45c8-ad09-18536f7f9313
source_resource_id	string	CKAN resource UUID.	fd7a782c-a382-4826-8743-b31384dee4ab
source_url	string	Original source resource URL.	http://data.gov.gh/sites/default/files/harvest_resources/Employed%2520pe
license_id	string	Source license identifier.	odc-odbl
retrieved_at	string	UTC retrieval timestamp.	2026-07-18T20:11:31Z

Usage

from datasets import load_dataset

ds = load_dataset("electricsheepafrica/africa-ghana-census-data-employment-df43326d")
df = ds["train"].to_pandas()
print(df.head())

Filter to one country

sample_country = df[df["country_iso3"] == "GHA"]

Work with indicators

if "indicator_id" in df.columns:
    print(df["indicator_id"].value_counts().head())
    sample = df.sort_values([c for c in ["indicator_id", "year"] if c in df.columns])

Citation

@misc{electric_sheep_africa_africa_ghana_census_data_employment_df43326d_2010,
  title        = {Census data-Employment | Africa (Ghana official open data)},
  author       = {Official government open data portal},
  year         = {2010},
  url          = {http://data.gov.gh/dataset/census-data-employment},
  publisher    = {HuggingFace Datasets, repackaged by Electric Sheep Africa},
  howpublished = {\url{https://huggingface.co/datasets/electricsheepafrica/africa-ghana-census-data-employment-df43326d}}
}

License

Released under Open Data Commons Open Database License.

Original data (c) Official government open data portal. When using this dataset, please cite both the original source above and the Electric Sheep Africa repackaging.

About Electric Sheep

Electric Sheep Africa is part of the Electric Sheep mission: a unified, ML-ready data layer for Africa on Hugging Face. We pull data from authoritative open sources, normalize the schemas, package as Parquet, and publish with consistent dataset cards so researchers and developers can use load_dataset() to start working in seconds.

Browse the full collection: huggingface.co/electricsheepafrica

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Provenance: ingested 2026-07-18 via the Electric Sheep pipeline. Source URL: http://data.gov.gh/sites/default/files/harvest_resources/Employed%2520persons%252015%2520years%2520and%2520older%2520by%2520occupation%252C%2520type%2520of%2520locality%2520%2520and%2520%2520region.csv