electricsheepafrica/africa-ghana-import-and-export-of-goods-records-2003-to-2012-548ffa6f

Import and Export of goods records 2003 to 2012 | Africa (Ghana official open data)

45,832 rows - 1 Africa country - 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: Import and Export of goods records 2003 to 2012
• Publisher: Official government open data portal
• Resource: Export and Import of goods records 2005
• Format: CSV
• License: CC BY 4.0
• Packaging mode: indicator_long

Geographic coverage

1 Africa country:

Country	Rows	First year	Last year	Name
GHA	45,832	2005	2005	Ghana

Indicators or Resource Contents

• import-and-export-of-goods-records-2003-to-2012-house-code-86d01629 - Import and Export of goods records 2003 to 2012 - house code
• import-and-export-of-goods-records-2003-to-2012-house-heads-code-007505d3 - Import and Export of goods records 2003 to 2012 - house heads code
• import-and-export-of-goods-records-2003-to-2012-items-no-966f259a - Import and Export of goods records 2003 to 2012 - items no
• import-and-export-of-goods-records-2003-to-2012-number-of-packages-e875abda - Import and Export of goods records 2003 to 2012 - number of packages
• import-and-export-of-goods-records-2003-to-2012-items-cif-ghc-c0485cfa - Import and Export of goods records 2003 to 2012 - items cif ghc
• import-and-export-of-goods-records-2003-to-2012-amount-paid-ghc-4b607b78 - Import and Export of goods records 2003 to 2012 - amount paid ghc

Schema

Column	Type	Description	Example
indicator_id	string	Stable indicator identifier.	import-and-export-of-goods-records-2003-to-2012-house-code-86d01629
indicator_name	string	Human-readable indicator name.	Import and Export of goods records 2003 to 2012 - house code
country_iso3	string	ISO3 country code.	GHA
country_name	string	Country name.	Ghana
date	string	Observation date.	2005-11-09
year	Int64	Observation year.	2005
value	float64	Numeric observation value.	105190000.0
unit	string	Measurement unit, when available.	source_units_unspecified
dimension_house_description	string	Source dimension.	Fowls of the species gallus domesticus: other
dimension_goods_descriptions_1	string	Source dimension.	50 CTNS AFRICA SPICES
dimension_country_destination	string	Source dimension.	US
source_period_start_year	Int64	First year inferred from source resource metadata.	2005
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.	2005
source_provider	string	Publishing organization.	Official government open data portal
source_dataset	string	Source package title.	Import and Export of goods records 2003 to 2012
source_resource	string	Source resource title.	Export and Import of goods records 2005
source_package_id	string	CKAN package UUID.	753d567a-6686-4c2c-bb55-c3d81ad17796
source_resource_id	string	CKAN resource UUID.	1a7f32f4-178c-43cf-9dd6-3eecad26075c
source_url	string	Original source resource URL.	http://data.gov.gh/sites/default/files/Export%20and%20Import%20of%20good
license_id	string	Source license identifier.	cc-by
retrieved_at	string	UTC retrieval timestamp.	2026-07-18T20:11:31Z

Usage

from datasets import load_dataset

ds = load_dataset("electricsheepafrica/africa-ghana-import-and-export-of-goods-records-2003-to-2012-548ffa6f")
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_import_and_export_of_goods_records_2003_to_2012_548ffa6f_2005,
  title        = {Import and Export of goods records 2003 to 2012 | Africa (Ghana official open data)},
  author       = {Official government open data portal},
  year         = {2005},
  url          = {http://data.gov.gh/dataset/import-and-export-goods-records-2003-2012},
  publisher    = {HuggingFace Datasets, repackaged by Electric Sheep Africa},
  howpublished = {\url{https://huggingface.co/datasets/electricsheepafrica/africa-ghana-import-and-export-of-goods-records-2003-to-2012-548ffa6f}}
}

License

Released under CC BY 4.0.

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/Export%20and%20Import%20of%20goods%20records%20of%202005%201.csv