electricsheepafrica/africa-tanzania-national-bureau-of-statistics-ec049201

National Bureau of Statistics | Africa (Tanzania official open data)

2,554 rows - 1 Africa country - 2020-2026 - Repackaged by Electric Sheep Africa

TL;DR

This dataset packages one official XLS resource from Tanzania 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: National Bureau of Statistics
• Publisher: National Bureau of Statistics, Tanzania
• Resource: [CPI Summary_042026](https://www.nbs.go.tz/uploads/statistics/documents/en-1778237591-CPI Summary_042026.xls)
• Format: XLS
• License: Other open license
• Packaging mode: indicator_long

Geographic coverage

1 Africa country:

Country	Rows	First year	Last year	Name
TZA	2,554	2020	2026	Tanzania

Indicators or Resource Contents

• national-bureau-of-statistics-ec049201 - National Bureau of Statistics

Schema

Column	Type	Description	Example
indicator_id	string	Stable indicator identifier.	national-bureau-of-statistics-ec049201
indicator_name	string	Human-readable indicator name.	National Bureau of Statistics
country_iso3	string	ISO3 country code.	TZA
source_sheet	string	Workbook sheet name, when the source is a spreadsheet.	2021_REBASED SERIES
country_name	string	Country name.	Tanzania
year	Int64	Observation year.	2020
value	float64	Numeric observation value.	3.152626042808304
unit	string	Measurement unit, when available.	source_units_unspecified
dimension_s_n	string	Source dimension.	``
dimension_major_groups	string	Source dimension.	INFLATION RATE
dimension_weights	string	Source dimension.	``
dimension_annual_average	string	Source dimension.	3.69101833278056
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, Tanzania
source_dataset	string	Source package title.	National Bureau of Statistics
source_resource	string	Source resource title.	CPI Summary_042026
source_package_id	string	CKAN package UUID.	consumer-price-index-2026
source_resource_id	string	CKAN resource UUID.	nbs-stat-05df611ea1cf0c
source_url	string	Original source resource URL.	https://www.nbs.go.tz/uploads/statistics/documents/en-1778237591-CPI Sum
license_id	string	Source license identifier.	other-open
retrieved_at	string	UTC retrieval timestamp.	2026-07-21T20:19:26Z

Usage

from datasets import load_dataset

ds = load_dataset("electricsheepafrica/africa-tanzania-national-bureau-of-statistics-ec049201")
df = ds["train"].to_pandas()
print(df.head())

Filter to one country

sample_country = df[df["country_iso3"] == "TZA"]

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_tanzania_national_bureau_of_statistics_ec049201_2026,
  title        = {National Bureau of Statistics | Africa (Tanzania official open data)},
  author       = {National Bureau of Statistics, Tanzania},
  year         = {2026},
  url          = {https://www.nbs.go.tz/statistics/topic/consumer-price-index-2026},
  publisher    = {HuggingFace Datasets, repackaged by Electric Sheep Africa},
  howpublished = {\url{https://huggingface.co/datasets/electricsheepafrica/africa-tanzania-national-bureau-of-statistics-ec049201}}
}

License

Released under Other open license.

Original data (c) National Bureau of Statistics, Tanzania. 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 2026-07-21 via the Electric Sheep pipeline. Source URL: https://www.nbs.go.tz/uploads/statistics/documents/en-1778237591-CPI Summary_042026.xls