Datasets:

electricsheepafrica
/

africa-ghana-road-accidents-and-casualties-in-ghana-52a4ad2d

license: odc-by
language:
  - en
task_categories:
  - tabular-regression
  - time-series-forecasting
multilinguality: multilingual
size_categories:
  - n<1K
tags:
  - tabular
  - africa
  - open-data
  - official-statistics
  - ghana
  - ghana-official-open-data-portal
  - ghana-open-data
  - transport
  - group
  - roads-sector
  - car-crashes
  - casualties
  - driving
  - pedestian
  - road-accidents
  - road-users
configs:
  - config_name: default
    data_files:
      - split: train
        path: data/train-00000-of-00001.parquet
pretty_name: Road Accidents and Casualties in Ghana | Africa (Ghana Open Data)

Road Accidents and Casualties in Ghana | Africa (Ghana Open Data)

205 rows - 1 Africa country/area - 2001-2011 - 5 indicators - Engineered by Electric Sheep Africa

TL;DR

This dataset contains 205 rows from Ghana Open Data, covering Road Accidents and Casualties in Ghana. 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: Statistics of the nature and consequences of road traffic crashes in the Central Region for 2001-2011

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

Dimension	Value
Rows	205
Countries/areas	1
First period	2001
Last period	2011
Indicators	5
Columns	19
Source format	CSV

Geographic Coverage

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

Area	Rows	First year	Last year	Name
`GHA`	205	2001	2011	`Ghana`

Indicators, Variables, Or Resource Contents

road-accidents-and-casualties-in-ghana-unnamed-2-c167dda3 - Road Accidents and Casualties in Ghana - unnamed 2(source_units_unspecified)
road-accidents-and-casualties-in-ghana-unnamed-3-3d58cddb - Road Accidents and Casualties in Ghana - unnamed 3(source_units_unspecified)
road-accidents-and-casualties-in-ghana-unnamed-4-ad2e50b4 - Road Accidents and Casualties in Ghana - unnamed 4(source_units_unspecified)
road-accidents-and-casualties-in-ghana-unnamed-5-83e627d1 - Road Accidents and Casualties in Ghana - unnamed 5(source_units_unspecified)
road-accidents-and-casualties-in-ghana-unnamed-6-0c826f2e - Road Accidents and Casualties in Ghana - unnamed 6(source_units_unspecified)

Schema

Column	Type	Description	Example
`indicator_id`	`string`	Stable source or Electric Sheep Africa indicator identifier.	`road-accidents-and-casualties-in-ghana-unnamed-2-c167dda3`
`indicator_name`	`string`	Human-readable indicator name.	`Road Accidents and Casualties in Ghana - unnamed 2`
`country_iso3`	`string`	ISO3 country or area code.	`GHA`
`country_name`	`string`	Country or area name.	`Ghana`
`year`	`int64`	Observation year.	`2011`
`value`	`double`	Numeric observation value.	`132.0`
`unit`	`string`	Measurement unit, when supplied by the source.	`source_units_unspecified`
`dimension_the_nature_and_consequences_of_road_traffic_cr`	`string`	Source dimension retained during long-form normalization.	`Head On`
`source_period_start_year`	`int64`	Start year inferred from source metadata.	`2001`
`source_period_end_year`	`int64`	End year inferred from source metadata.	`2011`
`source_period_label`	`string`	Source column from the original resource.	`2001-2011`
`source_provider`	`string`	Publishing organization.	`Official government open data portal`
`source_dataset`	`string`	Source dataset or package title.	`Road Accidents and Casualties in Ghana`
`source_resource`	`string`	Source resource title, table name, or file name.	`The Nature and Consequences of Road Traffic Crashes Central Region`
`source_package_id`	`string`	Source package identifier.	`8da4913c-b3e9-415a-bd17-e52abac01cce`
`source_resource_id`	`string`	Source resource identifier.	`c8ea5e79-836d-47f4-b421-c522e547b26d`
`source_url`	`string`	Original source URL or download URL.	`http://data.gov.gh/sites/default/files/The%20Nature%20and%20Consequen...`
`license_id`	`string`	Source license identifier.	`odc-by`
`retrieved_at`	`string`	UTC source retrieval timestamp from the Electric Sheep Africa pipeline.	`2026-07-18T20:11:31Z`

Usage

from datasets import load_dataset

ds = load_dataset("electricsheepafrica/africa-ghana-road-accidents-and-casualties-in-ghana-52a4ad2d")
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: The Nature and Consequences of Road Traffic Crashes Central Region
License: Open Data Commons Attribution License
Retrieved/generated: 2026-07-18T20:13:14Z
Hugging Face repo: electricsheepafrica/africa-ghana-road-accidents-and-casualties-in-ghana-52a4ad2d

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
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_road_accidents_and_casualties_in_ghana_52a4ad2d_2011,
  title        = {Road Accidents and Casualties in Ghana | Africa (Ghana Open Data)},
  author       = {Ghana official open data portal},
  year         = {2011},
  url          = {http://data.gov.gh/dataset/road-accidents-and-casualties-ghana},
  publisher    = {Hugging Face Datasets, engineered by Electric Sheep Africa},
  howpublished = {\url{https://huggingface.co/datasets/electricsheepafrica/africa-ghana-road-accidents-and-casualties-in-ghana-52a4ad2d}}
}

License

Released under Open Data Commons Attribution License.

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/road-accidents-and-casualties-ghana