electricsheepafrica/africa-ghana-immigration-data-departure-f77a1230

Immigration Data-Departure | Africa (Ghana official open data)

17 rows - 1 Africa country - 2015 - 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-Departure
• Publisher: Official government open data portal
• Resource: Departure data 2015
• 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	17	2015	2015	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.	2ba2a804-6d8c-423a-8748-b87041d8ef11:0
country_iso3	string	ISO3 country code.	GHA
country_name	string	Country name.	Ghana
year	Int64	Observation year.	2015
unnamed_0	string	Source column.	IVORIANS
january_departure	int64	Source column.	1634
february_departure	int64	Source column.	1662
march_departure	int64	Source column.	3559
april_departure	int64	Source column.	1517
may_departure	int64	Source column.	1673
june_departure	int64	Source column.	1727
july_departure	int64	Source column.	1954
august_departure	int64	Source column.	2351
september_departure	int64	Source column.	2201
october_departure	int64	Source column.	1677
november_departure	int64	Source column.	2172
source_period_start_year	Int64	First year inferred from source resource metadata.	2015
source_period_end_year	Int64	Last year inferred from source resource metadata.	2015
source_period_label	string	Human-readable period inferred from source resource metadata.	2015
source_provider	string	Publishing organization.	Official government open data portal
source_dataset	string	Source package title.	Immigration Data-Departure
source_resource	string	Source resource title.	Departure data 2015
source_package_id	string	CKAN package UUID.	dee0cd87-631e-48a3-a3aa-0a87cc4c2c72
source_resource_id	string	CKAN resource UUID.	2ba2a804-6d8c-423a-8748-b87041d8ef11
source_url	string	Original source resource URL.	http://data.gov.gh/sites/default/files/harvest_resources/Monthly%2520Dep
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-departure-f77a1230")
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_departure_f77a1230_2015,
  title        = {Immigration Data-Departure | Africa (Ghana official open data)},
  author       = {Official government open data portal},
  year         = {2015},
  url          = {http://data.gov.gh/dataset/immigration-data-departure},
  publisher    = {HuggingFace Datasets, repackaged by Electric Sheep Africa},
  howpublished = {\url{https://huggingface.co/datasets/electricsheepafrica/africa-ghana-immigration-data-departure-f77a1230}}
}

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/Monthly%2520Departure%2520Data%25202015.csv