electricsheepafrica/africa-ghana-census-data-household-population-cfa1bf5e

Census Data-Household population | Africa (Ghana official open data)

48 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-Household population
• Publisher: Official government open data portal
• Resource: Households with fixed telephone line(s) and desktop_laptop computer(s) by activity status of household head, sex and type of locality
• 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	48	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.	3b39f930-68f8-45f0-a93a-3efdbb9ab2c2:0
country_iso3	string	ISO3 country code.	GHA
country_name	string	Country name.	Ghana
year	Int64	Observation year.	2010
pk_a7in_content_types_xml_tena0_12we_d34vaa_o_e_xx_a_u_f	string	Source column.	ïïÓµL¸Úb.j"ÿ"%5´
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-Household population
source_resource	string	Source resource title.	Households with fixed telephone line(s) and desktop_laptop computer(s) b
source_package_id	string	CKAN package UUID.	6eceb7a7-fb05-4098-9e15-27a14a0f6a39
source_resource_id	string	CKAN resource UUID.	3b39f930-68f8-45f0-a93a-3efdbb9ab2c2
source_url	string	Original source resource URL.	http://data.gov.gh/sites/default/files/harvest_resources/Households%2520
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-household-population-cfa1bf5e")
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_household_population_cfa1bf5e_2010,
  title        = {Census Data-Household population | Africa (Ghana official open data)},
  author       = {Official government open data portal},
  year         = {2010},
  url          = {http://data.gov.gh/dataset/census-data-household-population},
  publisher    = {HuggingFace Datasets, repackaged by Electric Sheep Africa},
  howpublished = {\url{https://huggingface.co/datasets/electricsheepafrica/africa-ghana-census-data-household-population-cfa1bf5e}}
}

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/Households%2520with%2520fixed%2520telephone%2520line%2528s%2529%2520and%2520desktop_laptop%2520computer%2528s%2529%2520by%2520activity%2520status%2520of%2520household%2520head%252C%2520sex%2520and%2520type%2520of%2520locality.xlsx