electricsheepafrica/africa-nigeria-transport-fare-watch-c72b90c9

Transport Fare Watch | Africa (Nigeria official open data)

73 rows - 1 Africa country - 2026 - Repackaged by Electric Sheep Africa

TL;DR

This dataset packages one official ZIP 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: Transport Fare Watch
• Publisher: National Bureau of Statistics, Nigeria
• Resource: Transport Fare Watch Report May 2026
• Format: ZIP
• License: Other open license
• Packaging mode: tabular_resource

Geographic coverage

1 Africa country:

Country	Rows	First year	Last year	Name
NGA	73	2026	2026	Nigeria

Indicators or Resource Contents

• This source file is packaged as a normalized tabular resource.

Schema

Column	Type	Description	Example
source_record_id	string	Stable row identifier for tabular resources.	nbs-nada-161-1429:transport-cost-watch-may-2026-xl:0
country_iso3	string	ISO3 country code.	NGA
country_name	string	Country name.	Nigeria
source_sheet	string	Workbook sheet name, when the source is a spreadsheet.	TRANSPORT COST Watch MAY_2026_.xlsx::Transport May 2026
year	Int64	Observation year.	2026
zone	string	Source column.	Air fare charg.for specified routes single journey
average_of_may_25	float64	Source column.	130361.8462114865
average_of_apr_26	float64	Source column.	157355.8675448459
average_of_may_26	float64	Source column.	157552.18763797908
mom	float64	Source column.	0.1247618510807778
yoy	float64	Source column.	20.857591555110066
source_period_start_year	Int64	First year inferred from source resource metadata.	2026
source_period_end_year	Int64	Last year inferred from source resource metadata.	2026
source_period_label	string	Human-readable period inferred from source resource metadata.	2026
source_provider	string	Publishing organization.	National Bureau of Statistics, Nigeria
source_dataset	string	Source package title.	Transport Fare Watch
source_resource	string	Source resource title.	Transport Fare Watch Report May 2026
source_package_id	string	CKAN package UUID.	NGA-NBS-TRANSFW
source_resource_id	string	CKAN resource UUID.	nbs-nada-161-1429
source_url	string	Original source resource URL.	https://microdata.nigerianstat.gov.ng/index.php/catalog/161/download/142
license_id	string	Source license identifier.	other-open
retrieved_at	string	UTC retrieval timestamp.	2026-07-19T10:27:56Z
state	string	Source column.	``
air_fare_charg_for_specified_routes_single_journey	float64	Source column.	``
bus_journey_intercity_state_route_charg_per_per	float64	Source column.	``
bus_journey_within_city_per_drop_constant_rou	float64	Source column.	``
journey_by_motorcycle_okada_per_drop	float64	Source column.	``
water_transport_water_way_passenger_transportat	float64	Source column.	``

Usage

from datasets import load_dataset

ds = load_dataset("electricsheepafrica/africa-nigeria-transport-fare-watch-c72b90c9")
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_transport_fare_watch_c72b90c9_2026,
  title        = {Transport Fare Watch | Africa (Nigeria official open data)},
  author       = {National Bureau of Statistics, Nigeria},
  year         = {2026},
  url          = {https://microdata.nigerianstat.gov.ng/index.php/catalog/161/related-materials},
  publisher    = {HuggingFace Datasets, repackaged by Electric Sheep Africa},
  howpublished = {\url{https://huggingface.co/datasets/electricsheepafrica/africa-nigeria-transport-fare-watch-c72b90c9}}
}

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

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Provenance: ingested 2026-07-19 via the Electric Sheep pipeline. Source URL: https://microdata.nigerianstat.gov.ng/index.php/catalog/161/download/1429