--- license: other language: - en task_categories: - tabular-classification - tabular-regression multilinguality: monolingual size_categories: - n<1K tags: - tabular - zip - africa - nigeria - official-statistics - open-data - economics pretty_name: "Selected Food Price Watch | Africa (Nigeria official open data)" --- # Selected Food Price Watch | Africa (Nigeria official open data) 84 rows - 1 Africa country - 2026 - Repackaged by [Electric Sheep Africa](https://huggingface.co/electricsheepafrica) ![rows](https://img.shields.io/badge/rows-84-blue) ![countries](https://img.shields.io/badge/countries-1-green) ![years](https://img.shields.io/badge/years-2026-orange) ![indicators](https://img.shields.io/badge/indicators-0-purple) ![license](https://img.shields.io/badge/license-other-lightgrey) ## TL;DR This dataset packages one official `ZIP` 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:** [Selected Food Price Watch](https://microdata.nigerianstat.gov.ng/index.php/catalog/162/related-materials) - **Publisher:** National Bureau of Statistics, Nigeria - **Resource:** [Selected Food Price Watch March 2026](https://microdata.nigerianstat.gov.ng/index.php/catalog/162/download/1401) - **Format:** `ZIP` - **License:** [Other open license]() - **Packaging mode:** `tabular_resource` ## Geographic coverage 1 Africa country: | Country | Rows | First year | Last year | Name | |---------|-----:|-----------:|----------:|------| | `NGA` | 84 | 2026 | 2026 | `Nigeria` | ## 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. | `nbs-nada-162-1401:selected-food-table-mar26-xlsx-s:0` | | `country_iso3` | `string` | ISO3 country code. | `NGA` | | `country_name` | `string` | Country name. | `Nigeria` | | `source_sheet` | `string` | Workbook sheet name, when the source is a spreadsheet. | `selected food table Mar26.xlsx::Selected Food March 2026` | | `year` | `Int64` | Observation year. | `2026` | | `item_label` | `string` | Source column. | `Agric hen eggs,` | | `average_of_march_25` | `float64` | Source column. | `261.1823462867568` | | `average_of_february_26` | `float64` | Source column. | `248.3492807965436` | | `average_of_march_26` | `float64` | Source column. | `256.48492026575803` | | `mom` | `float64` | Source column. | `3.2758860597947344` | | `yoy` | `float64` | Source column. | `-1.7985235555857109` | | `highest` | `string` | Source column. | `Abia (284.06)` | | `lowest` | `string` | Source column. | `Plateau (240.75)` | | `source_period_start_year` | `Int64` | First year inferred from source resource metadata. | `2026` | | `source_period_end_year` | `Int64` | Last year inferred from source resource metadata. | `2026` | | `source_period_label` | `string` | Human-readable period inferred from source resource metadata. | `2026` | | `source_provider` | `string` | Publishing organization. | `National Bureau of Statistics, Nigeria` | | `source_dataset` | `string` | Source package title. | `Selected Food Price Watch` | | `source_resource` | `string` | Source resource title. | `Selected Food Price Watch March 2026` | | `source_package_id` | `string` | CKAN package UUID. | `NGA-NBS-FOODPW` | | `source_resource_id` | `string` | CKAN resource UUID. | `nbs-nada-162-1401` | | `source_url` | `string` | Original source resource URL. | `https://microdata.nigerianstat.gov.ng/index.php/catalog/162/download/140` | | `license_id` | `string` | Source license identifier. | `other-open` | | `retrieved_at` | `string` | UTC retrieval timestamp. | `2026-07-19T04:13:01Z` | | `north_central` | `float64` | Source column. | `` | | `north_east` | `float64` | Source column. | `` | | `north_west` | `float64` | Source column. | `` | | `south_east` | `float64` | Source column. | `` | | `south_south` | `float64` | Source column. | `` | | `south_west` | `float64` | Source column. | `` | ## Usage ```python from datasets import load_dataset ds = load_dataset("electricsheepafrica/africa-nigeria-selected-food-price-watch-a226e37e") df = ds["train"].to_pandas() print(df.head()) ``` ### Filter to one country ```python sample_country = df[df["country_iso3"] == "NGA"] ``` ### Work with indicators ```python 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 ```bibtex @misc{electric_sheep_africa_africa_nigeria_selected_food_price_watch_a226e37e_2026, title = {Selected Food Price Watch | Africa (Nigeria official open data)}, author = {National Bureau of Statistics, Nigeria}, year = {2026}, url = {https://microdata.nigerianstat.gov.ng/index.php/catalog/162/related-materials}, publisher = {HuggingFace Datasets, repackaged by Electric Sheep Africa}, howpublished = {\url{https://huggingface.co/datasets/electricsheepafrica/africa-nigeria-selected-food-price-watch-a226e37e}} } ``` ## 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](https://huggingface.co/electricsheepafrica) --- Provenance: ingested 2026-07-19 via the Electric Sheep pipeline. Source URL: https://microdata.nigerianstat.gov.ng/index.php/catalog/162/download/1401