electricsheepafrica/africa-nigeria-automotive-gas-oil-diesel-price-watch-1ffce06b

Automotive Gas Oil (Diesel) Price Watch | Africa (Nigeria official open data)

86 rows - 1 Africa country - 1920-1958 - Repackaged by Electric Sheep Africa

TL;DR

This dataset packages one official XLSX resource from Nigeria 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: Automotive Gas Oil (Diesel) Price Watch
• Publisher: National Bureau of Statistics, Nigeria
• Resource: AGO June 2025 Tables
• Format: XLSX
• License: Other open license
• Packaging mode: indicator_long

Geographic coverage

1 Africa country:

Country	Rows	First year	Last year	Name
NGA	86	1920	1958	Nigeria

Indicators or Resource Contents

• automotive-gas-oil-diesel-price-watch-1ffce06b - Automotive Gas Oil (Diesel) Price Watch

Schema

Column	Type	Description	Example
indicator_id	string	Stable indicator identifier.	automotive-gas-oil-diesel-price-watch-1ffce06b
indicator_name	string	Human-readable indicator name.	Automotive Gas Oil (Diesel) Price Watch
country_iso3	string	ISO3 country code.	NGA
source_sheet	string	Workbook sheet name, when the source is a spreadsheet.	DIESEL JUNE 2025
country_name	string	Country name.	Nigeria
year	Int64	Observation year.	1920
value	float64	Numeric observation value.	1800.16666666667
unit	string	Measurement unit, when available.	source_units_unspecified
dimension_north_central	string	Source dimension.	Abuja
dimension_d_1447_8350078492936	string	Source dimension.	1240
dimension_d_37_350633665194955	string	Source dimension.	46.68010752688146
dimension_d_1_932754827762245	string	Source dimension.	1.0369410239788972
dimension_south_east	string	Source dimension.	North Central
dimension_d_1691_1677601070762	string	Source dimension.	1958.3847938358808
source_period_start_year	Int64	First year inferred from source resource metadata.	2025
source_period_end_year	Int64	Last year inferred from source resource metadata.	2025
source_period_label	string	Human-readable period inferred from source resource metadata.	2025
source_provider	string	Publishing organization.	National Bureau of Statistics, Nigeria
source_dataset	string	Source package title.	Automotive Gas Oil (Diesel) Price Watch
source_resource	string	Source resource title.	AGO June 2025 Tables
source_package_id	string	CKAN package UUID.	NGA-NBS-AGO
source_resource_id	string	CKAN resource UUID.	nbs-nada-158-1263
source_url	string	Original source resource URL.	https://microdata.nigerianstat.gov.ng/index.php/catalog/158/download/126
license_id	string	Source license identifier.	other-open
retrieved_at	string	UTC retrieval timestamp.	2026-07-19T04:13:01Z

Usage

from datasets import load_dataset

ds = load_dataset("electricsheepafrica/africa-nigeria-automotive-gas-oil-diesel-price-watch-1ffce06b")
df = ds["train"].to_pandas()
print(df.head())

Filter to one country

sample_country = df[df["country_iso3"] == "NGA"]

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_nigeria_automotive_gas_oil_diesel_price_watch_1ffce06b_1958,
  title        = {Automotive Gas Oil (Diesel) Price Watch | Africa (Nigeria official open data)},
  author       = {National Bureau of Statistics, Nigeria},
  year         = {1958},
  url          = {https://microdata.nigerianstat.gov.ng/index.php/catalog/158/related-materials},
  publisher    = {HuggingFace Datasets, repackaged by Electric Sheep Africa},
  howpublished = {\url{https://huggingface.co/datasets/electricsheepafrica/africa-nigeria-automotive-gas-oil-diesel-price-watch-1ffce06b}}
}

License

Released under Other open license.

Original data (c) National Bureau of Statistics, Nigeria. 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 2026-07-19 via the Electric Sheep pipeline. Source URL: https://microdata.nigerianstat.gov.ng/index.php/catalog/158/download/1263