license: other
language:
- en
task_categories:
- tabular-regression
- time-series-forecasting
multilinguality: monolingual
size_categories:
- n<1K
tags:
- tabular
- xlsx
- africa
- nigeria
- official-statistics
- open-data
- economics
pretty_name: >-
Premium Motor Spirit (Petrol) Price Watch | Africa (Nigeria official open
data)
Premium Motor Spirit (Petrol) Price Watch | Africa (Nigeria official open data)
116 rows - 1 Africa country - 2023-2024 - Repackaged by Electric Sheep Africa
TL;DR
This dataset packages one official XLSX resource from Nigeria 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: Premium Motor Spirit (Petrol) Price Watch
- Publisher: National Bureau of Statistics, Nigeria
- Resource: PMS November 2024 Tables
- Format:
XLSX - License: Other open license
- Packaging mode:
indicator_long
Geographic coverage
1 Africa country:
| Country | Rows | First year | Last year | Name |
|---|---|---|---|---|
NGA |
116 | 2023 | 2024 | Nigeria |
Indicators or Resource Contents
premium-motor-spirit-petrol-price-watch-08946669- Premium Motor Spirit (Petrol) Price Watch
Schema
| Column | Type | Description | Example |
|---|---|---|---|
indicator_id |
string |
Stable indicator identifier. | premium-motor-spirit-petrol-price-watch-08946669 |
indicator_name |
string |
Human-readable indicator name. | Premium Motor Spirit (Petrol) Price Watch |
country_iso3 |
string |
ISO3 country code. | NGA |
source_sheet |
string |
Workbook sheet name, when the source is a spreadsheet. | November 2024 |
country_name |
string |
Country name. | Nigeria |
year |
Int64 |
Observation year. | 2023 |
value |
float64 |
Numeric observation value. | 654.3571428571429 |
unit |
string |
Measurement unit, when available. | source_units_unspecified |
dimension_state |
string |
Source dimension. | Abia |
dimension_zone |
string |
Source dimension. | South East |
dimension_average_price |
string |
Source dimension. | 1257.7218642167013 |
source_period_start_year |
Int64 |
First year inferred from source resource metadata. | 2024 |
source_period_end_year |
Int64 |
Last year inferred from source resource metadata. | 2024 |
source_period_label |
string |
Human-readable period inferred from source resource metadata. | 2024 |
source_provider |
string |
Publishing organization. | National Bureau of Statistics, Nigeria |
source_dataset |
string |
Source package title. | Premium Motor Spirit (Petrol) Price Watch |
source_resource |
string |
Source resource title. | PMS November 2024 Tables |
source_package_id |
string |
CKAN package UUID. | NGA-NBS-PMS |
source_resource_id |
string |
CKAN resource UUID. | nbs-nada-157-1129 |
source_url |
string |
Original source resource URL. | https://microdata.nigerianstat.gov.ng/index.php/catalog/157/download/112 |
license_id |
string |
Source license identifier. | other-open |
retrieved_at |
string |
UTC retrieval timestamp. | 2026-07-19T04:13:01Z |
Usage
from datasets import load_dataset
ds = load_dataset("electricsheepafrica/africa-nigeria-premium-motor-spirit-petrol-price-watch-08946669")
df = ds["train"].to_pandas()
print(df.head())
Filter to one country
sample_country = df[df["country_iso3"] == "NGA"]
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_nigeria_premium_motor_spirit_petrol_price_watch_08946669_2024,
title = {Premium Motor Spirit (Petrol) Price Watch | Africa (Nigeria official open data)},
author = {National Bureau of Statistics, Nigeria},
year = {2024},
url = {https://microdata.nigerianstat.gov.ng/index.php/catalog/157/related-materials},
publisher = {HuggingFace Datasets, repackaged by Electric Sheep Africa},
howpublished = {\url{https://huggingface.co/datasets/electricsheepafrica/africa-nigeria-premium-motor-spirit-petrol-price-watch-08946669}}
}
License
Released under Other open license.
Original data (c) National Bureau of Statistics, Nigeria. 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
Provenance: ingested 2026-07-19 via the Electric Sheep pipeline. Source URL: https://microdata.nigerianstat.gov.ng/index.php/catalog/157/download/1129