--- license: cc-by-sa-4.0 language: - en task_categories: - tabular-regression - time-series-forecasting multilinguality: monolingual size_categories: - n<1K tags: - tabular - xls - africa - mauritius - official-statistics - open-data configs: - config_name: default data_files: - split: train path: data/train-00000-of-00001.parquet pretty_name: "Wage Rate Indices | Africa (Mauritius official open data)" --- # Wage Rate Indices | Africa (Mauritius official open data) 114 rows - 1 Africa country - 1993-2015 - Repackaged by [Electric Sheep Africa](https://huggingface.co/electricsheepafrica) ![rows](https://img.shields.io/badge/rows-114-blue) ![countries](https://img.shields.io/badge/countries-1-green) ![years](https://img.shields.io/badge/years-1993-2015-orange) ![indicators](https://img.shields.io/badge/indicators-5-purple) ![license](https://img.shields.io/badge/license-cc-by-sa-4.0-lightgrey) ## TL;DR This dataset packages one official `XLS` resource from **Mauritius** 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:** [Wage Rate Indices](https://data.govmu.org/dataset/wage-rate-indices) - **Publisher:** MDPA - **Resource:** [SOURCE-Wage-Rate-Indices-multi-base-1993-2016.xls](https://data.govmu.org/dataset/8d3de531-1b13-4cf0-aa8d-2bdfceb7245c/resource/08d12f43-d0ef-46fb-a707-272eea974efc/download/source-wage-rate-indices-multi-base-1993-2016.xls) - **Format:** `XLS` - **License:** [CC BY-SA 4.0](https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0/) - **Packaging mode:** `indicator_long` ## Geographic coverage 1 Africa country: | Country | Rows | First year | Last year | Name | |---------|-----:|-----------:|----------:|------| | `MU` | 114 | 1993 | 2015 | `Mauritius` | ## Indicators or Resource Contents - `wage-rate-indices-base-3rd-quarter-1992-100-5d0c11f8` - Wage Rate Indices - base 3rd quarter 1992 100 - `wage-rate-indices-base-3rd-quarter-2000-100-7c6af6c9` - Wage Rate Indices - base 3rd quarter 2000 100 - `wage-rate-indices-base-3rd-quarter-2006-100-e365ac48` - Wage Rate Indices - base 3rd quarter 2006 100 - `wage-rate-indices-base-4th-quarter-2011-100-0c099b16` - Wage Rate Indices - base 4th quarter 2011 100 - `wage-rate-indices-annual-percentage-change-a3460382` - Wage Rate Indices - annual percentage change ## Schema | Column | Type | Description | Example | |--------|------|-------------|---------| | `indicator_id` | `string` | Stable indicator identifier. | `wage-rate-indices-base-3rd-quarter-1992-100-5d0c11f8` | | `indicator_name` | `string` | Human-readable indicator name. | `Wage Rate Indices - base 3rd quarter 1992 100` | | `country_iso3` | `string` | ISO3 country code. | `MU` | | `source_sheet` | `string` | Workbook sheet name, when the source is a spreadsheet. | `Sheet1` | | `country_name` | `string` | Country name. | `Mauritius` | | `year` | `Int64` | Observation year. | `1993` | | `value` | `float64` | Numeric observation value. | `115.5` | | `unit` | `string` | Measurement unit, when available. | `source_units_unspecified` | | `source_period_start_year` | `Int64` | First year inferred from source resource metadata. | `1993` | | `source_period_end_year` | `Int64` | Last year inferred from source resource metadata. | `2016` | | `source_period_label` | `category` | Human-readable period inferred from source resource metadata. | `1993-2016` | | `source_provider` | `category` | Publishing organization. | `MDPA` | | `source_dataset` | `category` | Source package title. | `Wage Rate Indices` | | `source_resource` | `category` | Source resource title. | `SOURCE-Wage-Rate-Indices-multi-base-1993-2016.xls` | | `source_package_id` | `category` | CKAN package UUID. | `8d3de531-1b13-4cf0-aa8d-2bdfceb7245c` | | `source_resource_id` | `category` | CKAN resource UUID. | `08d12f43-d0ef-46fb-a707-272eea974efc` | | `source_url` | `category` | Original source resource URL. | `https://data.govmu.org/dataset/8d3de531-1b13-4cf0-aa8d-2bdfceb7245c/reso` | | `license_id` | `category` | Source license identifier. | `CC-BY-SA-4.0` | | `retrieved_at` | `category` | UTC retrieval timestamp. | `2026-08-08T16:26:20Z` | ## Usage ```python from datasets import load_dataset ds = load_dataset("electricsheepafrica/africa-mauritius-wage-rate-indices-219a0ef4") df = ds["train"].to_pandas() print(df.head()) ``` ### Filter to one country ```python sample_country = df[df["country_iso3"] == "MU"] ``` ### 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_mauritius_wage_rate_indices_219a0ef4_2015, title = {Wage Rate Indices | Africa (Mauritius official open data)}, author = {MDPA}, year = {2015}, url = {https://data.govmu.org/dataset/wage-rate-indices}, publisher = {HuggingFace Datasets, repackaged by Electric Sheep Africa}, howpublished = {\url{https://huggingface.co/datasets/electricsheepafrica/africa-mauritius-wage-rate-indices-219a0ef4}} } ``` ## License Released under [CC BY-SA 4.0](https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0/). Original data (c) MDPA. 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 2026-08-08 via the Electric Sheep pipeline. Source URL: https://data.govmu.org/dataset/8d3de531-1b13-4cf0-aa8d-2bdfceb7245c/resource/08d12f43-d0ef-46fb-a707-272eea974efc/download/source-wage-rate-indices-multi-base-1993-2016.xls