electricsheepafrica/africa-ghana-2017-summary-report-of-business-company-registration-in-gh-ad289063

2017 Summary Report of Business Company Registration in Gh | Africa (Ghana Open Data)

90,944 rows - 1 Africa country/area - 2017 - source table - Engineered by [Electric Sheep Africa](https://huggingface.co/electricsheepafrica)

TL;DR

This dataset contains 90,944 rows from Ghana Open Data, covering 2017 Summary Report of Business Company Registration in Gh. 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: COMPREHENSIVE SUMMARY REPORT OF BUSINESS/ COMPANY, NATURE OF BUSINESS, PRINCIPAL ACTIVITIES, REGIONS AND DISTRICTS FOR THE YEAR 2017

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: year.
• —Time coverage basis: year.
• —Recommended join keys: country_iso3 where available plus source-specific keys.

Coverage

Geographic Coverage

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

Indicators, Variables, Or Resource Contents

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

Schema

Usage

from datasets import load_dataset

ds = load_dataset("electricsheepafrica/africa-ghana-2017-summary-report-of-business-company-registration-in-gh-ad289063")
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"] == "GHA"]

Time-Series Pattern

if "value" in df.columns and "year" in df.columns:
    trend = df.sort_values("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: 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: Ghana Open Data
• —Publisher: Ghana official open data portal
• —Portal: http://data.gov.gh
• —Resource: 2017 SUMMARY REPORT OF BUSINESS/ COMPANY REGISTRATION IN GHANA
• —License: CC BY 4.0
• —Retrieved/generated: 2026-07-18T20:20:51Z
• —Hugging Face repo: electricsheepafrica/africa-ghana-2017-summary-report-of-business-company-registration-in-gh-ad289063

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_ghana_2017_summary_report_of_business_company_registration_in_gh_ad289063_2017,
  title        = {2017 Summary Report of Business Company Registration in Gh | Africa (Ghana Open Data)},
  author       = {Ghana official open data portal},
  year         = {2017},
  url          = {http://data.gov.gh/dataset/2017-summary-report-business-company-registration-ghana},
  publisher    = {Hugging Face Datasets, engineered by Electric Sheep Africa},
  howpublished = {\url{https://huggingface.co/datasets/electricsheepafrica/africa-ghana-2017-summary-report-of-business-company-registration-in-gh-ad289063}}
}

License

Released under CC BY 4.0.

Original data is published by Ghana official open data portal. 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.

Provenance: README standardized 2026-08-11 by the Electric Sheep Africa README system. Source URL: http://data.gov.gh/dataset/2017-summary-report-business-company-registration-ghana