electricsheepafrica/africa-ghana-immigration-data-arrivals-87445046

Immigration Data, Arrivals | Africa (Ghana official open data)

85 rows - 1 Africa country - 2001-2005 - 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: Immigration Data, Arrivals
• Publisher: Official government open data portal
• Resource: Arrivals of Visitors to Ghana 2001-2005
• Format: CSV
• License: Open Data Commons Open Database License
• Packaging mode: indicator_long

Geographic coverage

1 Africa country:

Country	Rows	First year	Last year	Name
GHA	85	2001	2005	Ghana

Indicators or Resource Contents

• immigration-data-arrivals-87445046 - Immigration Data, Arrivals

Schema

Column	Type	Description	Example
indicator_id	string	Stable indicator identifier.	immigration-data-arrivals-87445046
indicator_name	string	Human-readable indicator name.	Immigration Data, Arrivals
country_iso3	string	ISO3 country code.	GHA
country_name	string	Country name.	Ghana
year	Int64	Observation year.	2001
value	float64	Numeric observation value.	33865.0
unit	string	Measurement unit, when available.	source_units_unspecified
dimension_nationality	string	Source dimension.	IVOIRIANS
source_period_start_year	Int64	First year inferred from source resource metadata.	2001
source_period_end_year	Int64	Last year inferred from source resource metadata.	2005
source_period_label	string	Human-readable period inferred from source resource metadata.	2001-2005
source_provider	string	Publishing organization.	Official government open data portal
source_dataset	string	Source package title.	Immigration Data, Arrivals
source_resource	string	Source resource title.	Arrivals of Visitors to Ghana 2001-2005
source_package_id	string	CKAN package UUID.	17448067-f860-4a2a-b654-e4174ab5940e
source_resource_id	string	CKAN resource UUID.	bd5cfa88-d786-4942-a2e7-3f1dcf7599fd
source_url	string	Original source resource URL.	http://data.gov.gh/sites/default/files/harvest_resources/Arrivals%2520of
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-immigration-data-arrivals-87445046")
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_immigration_data_arrivals_87445046_2005,
  title        = {Immigration Data, Arrivals | Africa (Ghana official open data)},
  author       = {Official government open data portal},
  year         = {2005},
  url          = {http://data.gov.gh/dataset/immigration-data-arrivals},
  publisher    = {HuggingFace Datasets, repackaged by Electric Sheep Africa},
  howpublished = {\url{https://huggingface.co/datasets/electricsheepafrica/africa-ghana-immigration-data-arrivals-87445046}}
}

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/Arrivals%2520of%2520Foreigners%2520and%2520Visitors%25202001-2005.csv