electricsheepafrica/africa-mauritius-passenger-arrival-and-departure-by-year-by-type-of-passeng-00e2078e

Passenger Arrival and Departure by Year by Type of Passeng | Africa (MDPA)

78 rows - 1 Africa country/area - 1970-01-01 - source table - Engineered by Electric Sheep Africa

TL;DR

This dataset contains 78 rows from MDPA, covering Passenger Arrival and Departure by Year by Type of Passeng. It is published as ML-ready Parquet with consistent Hugging Face metadata, source provenance, and analysis-friendly loading examples.

What This Dataset Measures

Transport datasets help analysts examine mobility, infrastructure, passenger movement, logistics, and access to services.

Source-provided context: The data shows the number of arrival and departure to Mauritius by year, by type of passenger and by purpose of stay for Mauritius

How To Read This Dataset

• One row means: one source record from the original tabular resource, with Electric Sheep Africa provenance columns added where available.
• Primary geography column: country_iso3.
• Best time column: whole_year.
• Time coverage basis: whole_year.
• Recommended join keys: country_iso3 where available plus source-specific keys.

Coverage

Dimension	Value
Rows	78
Countries/areas	1
First period	1970-01-01
Last period	1970-01-01
Indicators	0
Columns	29
Source format	XLSX

Geographic Coverage

Top areas shown below, sorted by row count when available:

Area	Rows	First year	Last year	Name
MU	78	1970-01-01	1970-01-01	Mauritius

Indicators, Variables, Or Resource Contents

• This repo preserves one source tabular resource with its usable columns kept together.

Schema

Column	Type	Description	Example
source_record_id	string	Stable row identifier assigned during Electric Sheep Africa engineering.	ba45e35b-d751-4267-aeea-72e13e87aed7:table-8-9:0
country_iso3	dictionary<values=string, indices=int8, ordered=0>	ISO3 country or area code.	MU
country_name	dictionary<values=string, indices=int8, ordered=0>	Country or area name.	Mauritius
source_sheet	string	Source column from the original resource.	Table 8-9
type_of_passenger	string	Source column from the original resource.	Arrivals
jan	double	Source column from the original resource.	``
feb	double	Source column from the original resource.	``
mar	double	Source column from the original resource.	``
apr	double	Source column from the original resource.	``
may	double	Source column from the original resource.	``
jun	double	Source column from the original resource.	``
jul	double	Source column from the original resource.	``
aug	double	Source column from the original resource.	``
sep	double	Source column from the original resource.	``
oct	double	Source column from the original resource.	``
nov	double	Source column from the original resource.	``
dec	double	Source column from the original resource.	``
whole_year	double	Source column from the original resource.	``
source_period_start_year	int64	Start year inferred from source metadata.	``
source_period_end_year	int64	End year inferred from source metadata.	``
source_period_label	string	Source column from the original resource.	``
source_provider	dictionary<values=string, indices=int8, ordered=0>	Publishing organization.	MDPA
source_dataset	dictionary<values=string, indices=int8, ordered=0>	Source dataset or package title.	Passenger arrival and departure by year, by type of passenger and by ...
source_resource	dictionary<values=string, indices=int8, ordered=0>	Source resource title, table name, or file name.	SourceFile_passenger-traffic-by-type-of-passenger_0.xlsx
source_package_id	dictionary<values=string, indices=int8, ordered=0>	Source package identifier.	4f59fde3-9158-4531-b3f8-7b5cbb14edb7
source_resource_id	dictionary<values=string, indices=int8, ordered=0>	Source resource identifier.	ba45e35b-d751-4267-aeea-72e13e87aed7
source_url	dictionary<values=string, indices=int8, ordered=0>	Original source URL or download URL.	https://data.govmu.org/dataset/4f59fde3-9158-4531-b3f8-7b5cbb14edb7/r...
license_id	dictionary<values=string, indices=int8, ordered=0>	Source license identifier.	CC-BY-SA-4.0
retrieved_at	dictionary<values=string, indices=int8, ordered=0>	UTC source retrieval timestamp from the Electric Sheep Africa pipeline.	2026-08-08T16:26:20Z

Usage

from datasets import load_dataset

ds = load_dataset("electricsheepafrica/africa-mauritius-passenger-arrival-and-departure-by-year-by-type-of-passeng-00e2078e")
df = ds["train"].to_pandas()
print(df.head())

Inspect Columns

print(df.info())
print(df.head())

Filter By Geography

if "country_iso3" in df.columns:
    sample = df[df["country_iso3"] == "MU"]

Time-Series Pattern

if "value" in df.columns and "whole_year" in df.columns:
    trend = df.sort_values("whole_year")

Pivot For Analysis

if {"indicator_id", "year", "value"}.issubset(df.columns):
    matrix = df.pivot_table(index="year", columns="indicator_id", values="value")
    print(matrix.tail())

Data Quality Notes

• Canonical time field: whole_year.
• Missing values are preserved rather than silently imputed.
• Column names are standardized for machine use; source meanings are preserved where known.
• Always confirm source methodology, units, and collection definitions before policy, production, or redistribution-sensitive use.

Source And Provenance

• Source: MDPA
• Publisher: MDPA
• Portal: https://data.govmu.org
• Resource: SourceFile_passenger-traffic-by-type-of-passenger_0.xlsx
• License: CC BY-SA 4.0
• Retrieved/generated: 2026-08-08T17:14:19Z
• Hugging Face repo: electricsheepafrica/africa-mauritius-passenger-arrival-and-departure-by-year-by-type-of-passeng-00e2078e

Transformations Applied

• Converted the source table to Parquet for efficient analytics and ML workflows.
• Added or preserved source provenance columns where available.
• Standardized README metadata, dataset loading configuration, schema documentation, and citation format.
• Preserved source-reported values without analytical imputation.

Suggested Analyses

• Track mobility over time
• Compare routes or geographies
• Join with economic and population data
• Build time-series views and period-over-period comparisons
• Check missingness before modeling
• Use country_iso3 as the safest geography join key when present

Citation

@misc{electric_sheep_africa_africa_mauritius_passenger_arrival_and_departure_by_year_by_type_of_passeng_00e2_1970,
  title        = {Passenger Arrival and Departure by Year by Type of Passeng | Africa (MDPA)},
  author       = {MDPA},
  year         = {1970},
  url          = {https://data.govmu.org/dataset/passenger-arrival-and-departure-year-type-passenger-and-purpose-stay-mauritius},
  publisher    = {Hugging Face Datasets, engineered by Electric Sheep Africa},
  howpublished = {\url{https://huggingface.co/datasets/electricsheepafrica/africa-mauritius-passenger-arrival-and-departure-by-year-by-type-of-passeng-00e2078e}}
}

License

Released under CC BY-SA 4.0.

Original data is published by MDPA. Electric Sheep Africa engineering standardizes the data for discovery, loading, and analysis on Hugging Face. Cite both the original source and this ML-ready dataset when used.

About Electric Sheep Africa

Electric Sheep Africa publishes ML-ready African public datasets on Hugging Face.

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Provenance: README standardized 2026-08-11 by the Electric Sheep Africa README system. Source URL: https://data.govmu.org/dataset/passenger-arrival-and-departure-year-type-passenger-and-purpose-stay-mauritius