electricsheepafrica/africa-tanzania-national-bureau-of-statistics-fe4aba00

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

1,421 rows - 1 Africa country - 2012-2019 - 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: Summary GDP First Quarter 2020.xls
• Format: XLS
• License: Other open license
• Packaging mode: indicator_long

Geographic coverage

1 Africa country:

Country	Rows	First year	Last year	Name
TZA	1,421	2012	2019	Tanzania

Indicators or Resource Contents

• national-bureau-of-statistics-year-8ec8b1e5 - National Bureau of Statistics - year
• national-bureau-of-statistics-quarter-a8b253e2 - National Bureau of Statistics - quarter
• national-bureau-of-statistics-agriculture-81cebacd - National Bureau of Statistics - agriculture
• national-bureau-of-statistics-mining-and-quarrying-b017acb3 - National Bureau of Statistics - mining and quarrying
• national-bureau-of-statistics-manufacturing-ca1a51b3 - National Bureau of Statistics - manufacturing
• national-bureau-of-statistics-electricity-53f6e093 - National Bureau of Statistics - electricity
• national-bureau-of-statistics-water-daec605f - National Bureau of Statistics - water
• national-bureau-of-statistics-construction-f9dc6fab - National Bureau of Statistics - construction
• national-bureau-of-statistics-trade-and-repair-c2d96027 - National Bureau of Statistics - trade and repair
• national-bureau-of-statistics-accommodation-restaurant-97305f69 - National Bureau of Statistics - accommodation restaurant
• national-bureau-of-statistics-transport-and-storage-248779fd - National Bureau of Statistics - transport and storage
• national-bureau-of-statistics-information-and-communication-41aeada2 - National Bureau of Statistics - information and communication
• national-bureau-of-statistics-financial-insurance-59c66999 - National Bureau of Statistics - financial insurance
• national-bureau-of-statistics-quarter-2-1ad7699b - National Bureau of Statistics - quarter 2
• national-bureau-of-statistics-public-administration-39c4759f - National Bureau of Statistics - public administration
• national-bureau-of-statistics-professional-scientific-technical-act-116648ea - National Bureau of Statistics - professional scientific technical act
• national-bureau-of-statistics-administrative-support-services-af6bb48c - National Bureau of Statistics - administrative support services
• national-bureau-of-statistics-real-estate-dba5de7c - National Bureau of Statistics - real estate
• national-bureau-of-statistics-education-b1f59a50 - National Bureau of Statistics - education
• national-bureau-of-statistics-health-ec1d04e6 - National Bureau of Statistics - health

Schema

Column	Type	Description	Example
indicator_id	string	Stable indicator identifier.	national-bureau-of-statistics-year-8ec8b1e5
indicator_name	string	Human-readable indicator name.	National Bureau of Statistics - year
country_iso3	string	ISO3 country code.	TZA
source_sheet	string	Workbook sheet name, when the source is a spreadsheet.	Table KP Tshs
country_name	string	Country name.	Tanzania
year	Int64	Observation year.	2012
value	float64	Numeric observation value.	2012.0
unit	string	Measurement unit, when available.	source_units_unspecified
source_period_start_year	Int64	First year inferred from source resource metadata.	2020
source_period_end_year	Int64	Last year inferred from source resource metadata.	2020
source_period_label	string	Human-readable period inferred from source resource metadata.	2020
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.	Summary GDP First Quarter 2020.xls
source_package_id	string	CKAN package UUID.	gross-domestic-product-gdp
source_resource_id	string	CKAN resource UUID.	nbs-stat-919887be8df84e
source_url	string	Original source resource URL.	https://www.nbs.go.tz/uploads/statistics/documents/en-1705429386-Summary
license_id	string	Source license identifier.	other-open
retrieved_at	string	UTC retrieval timestamp.	2026-07-21T20:05:22Z

Usage

from datasets import load_dataset

ds = load_dataset("electricsheepafrica/africa-tanzania-national-bureau-of-statistics-fe4aba00")
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_fe4aba00_2019,
  title        = {National Bureau of Statistics | Africa (Tanzania official open data)},
  author       = {National Bureau of Statistics, Tanzania},
  year         = {2019},
  url          = {https://www.nbs.go.tz/statistics/topic/gross-domestic-product-gdp},
  publisher    = {HuggingFace Datasets, repackaged by Electric Sheep Africa},
  howpublished = {\url{https://huggingface.co/datasets/electricsheepafrica/africa-tanzania-national-bureau-of-statistics-fe4aba00}}
}

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-1705429386-Summary_GDP_First_Quarter_2020.xls