electricsheepafrica/africa-ghana-retail-prices-of-major-petroleum-products-9ecf9b1b

Retail Prices of Major Petroleum Products | Africa (Ghana Open Data)

355 rows - 1 Africa country/area - 2008-2013 - 6 indicators - Engineered by [Electric Sheep Africa](https://huggingface.co/electricsheepafrica)

TL;DR

This dataset contains 355 rows from Ghana Open Data, covering Retail Prices of Major Petroleum Products. It is published as ML-ready Parquet with consistent Hugging Face metadata, source provenance, and analysis-friendly loading examples.

What This Dataset Measures

Economic datasets help analysts examine production, prices, public finance, trade flows, market conditions, and macroeconomic change.

Source-provided context: Retail Prices of Major Petroleum Products for the year 2013

How To Read This Dataset

• —One row means: one indicator observation for one geography, time period, and optional source dimensions.
• —Primary geography column: country_iso3.
• —Best time column: year.
• —Time coverage basis: year.
• —Recommended join keys: country_iso3, year, indicator_id.

Coverage

Geographic Coverage

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

Indicators, Variables, Or Resource Contents

• —retail-prices-of-major-petroleum-products-unnamed-1-ae02b6fa - Retail Prices of Major Petroleum Products - unnamed 1(sourceunitsunspecified)
• —retail-prices-of-major-petroleum-products-premium-gasoline-gh-lt-844bdfb1 - Retail Prices of Major Petroleum Products - premium gasoline gh lt(sourceunitsunspecified)
• —retail-prices-of-major-petroleum-products-gas-oil-gh-lt-a83687c0 - Retail Prices of Major Petroleum Products - gas oil gh lt(sourceunitsunspecified)
• —retail-prices-of-major-petroleum-products-kerosene-gh-lt-ced73f04 - Retail Prices of Major Petroleum Products - kerosene gh lt(sourceunitsunspecified)
• —retail-prices-of-major-petroleum-products-lpg-gh-kg-8ca3b47d - Retail Prices of Major Petroleum Products - lpg gh kg(sourceunitsunspecified)
• —retail-prices-of-major-petroleum-products-rfo-gh-lt-52cad3ec - Retail Prices of Major Petroleum Products - rfo gh lt(sourceunitsunspecified)

Schema

Usage

from datasets import load_dataset

ds = load_dataset("electricsheepafrica/africa-ghana-retail-prices-of-major-petroleum-products-9ecf9b1b")
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: Retail Prices of Major Petroleum Products 2013
• —License: CC BY 4.0
• —Retrieved/generated: 2026-07-18T20:13:36Z
• —Hugging Face repo: electricsheepafrica/africa-ghana-retail-prices-of-major-petroleum-products-9ecf9b1b

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

• —Build time-series dashboards
• —Compare economic indicators
• —Join with population or sector data
• —Build time-series views and period-over-period comparisons
• —Pivot to geography x period or indicator x period matrices
• —Check missingness before modeling
• —Use country_iso3 as the safest geography join key when present

Citation

@misc{electric_sheep_africa_africa_ghana_retail_prices_of_major_petroleum_products_9ecf9b1b_2013,
  title        = {Retail Prices of Major Petroleum Products | Africa (Ghana Open Data)},
  author       = {Ghana official open data portal},
  year         = {2013},
  url          = {http://data.gov.gh/dataset/retail-prices-major-petroleum-products},
  publisher    = {Hugging Face Datasets, engineered by Electric Sheep Africa},
  howpublished = {\url{https://huggingface.co/datasets/electricsheepafrica/africa-ghana-retail-prices-of-major-petroleum-products-9ecf9b1b}}
}

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/retail-prices-major-petroleum-products