electricsheepafrica/africa-fewsnet-staple-food-price-data-for-chad-weekly-124

Chad Weekly FEWS NET Staple Food Price Data

Publisher: FEWS NET · Source: HDX · License: cc-by · Updated: 2026-04-01

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Abstract

Chad Weekly staple food price data collected by FEWS NET since 2002.

Each row in this dataset represents country-level aggregates. Temporal coverage is indicated by the period_date column(s). Geographic scope: TCD.

Curated into ML-ready Parquet format by Electric Sheep Africa.

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Dataset Characteristics

Domain	Food security and nutrition
Unit of observation	Country-level aggregates
Rows (total)	68,861
Columns	18 (3 numeric, 14 categorical, 1 datetime)
Train split	55,088 rows
Test split	13,772 rows
Geographic scope	TCD
Publisher	FEWS NET
HDX last updated	2026-04-01

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Variables

Geographic — country (Chad), admin_1 (Kanem, N'Djamena, Ouaddai), longitude (range 14.7148–20.9267), latitude (range 8.5596–17.9287), price_type (Retail) and 2 others.

Temporal — period_date.

Outcome / Measurement — value (range 25.5–367968.0).

Identifier / Metadata — fnid (TD0000M010, TD0000M001, TD0000M004), source_document (Famine Early Warning Systems Network (FEWS NET), Chad, Price (weekly)), product_source (Local, Import), esa_source, esa_processed.

Other — market (N'Djamena, Abeche, Bongor), cpcv2 (R01182AD, R01142AC, R01709AE), product (Millet (Pearl), Sorghum (Red), Cowpeas (Mixed)), unit (kg, ea, L).

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Quick Start

from datasets import load_dataset

ds    = load_dataset("electricsheepafrica/africa-fewsnet-staple-food-price-data-for-chad-weekly-124")
train = ds["train"].to_pandas()
test  = ds["test"].to_pandas()

print(train.shape)
train.head()

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Schema

Column	Type	Null %	Range / Sample Values
country	object	0.0%	Chad
fnid	object	0.0%	TD0000M010, TD0000M001, TD0000M004
market	object	0.0%	N'Djamena, Abeche, Bongor
admin_1	object	0.0%	Kanem, N'Djamena, Ouaddai
longitude	float64	0.0%	14.7148 – 20.9267 (mean 17.2839)
latitude	float64	0.0%	8.5596 – 17.9287 (mean 12.1065)
cpcv2	object	0.0%	R01182AD, R01142AC, R01709AE
product	object	0.0%	Millet (Pearl), Sorghum (Red), Cowpeas (Mixed)
source_document	object	0.0%	Famine Early Warning Systems Network (FEWS NET), Chad, Price (weekly)
period_date	datetime64[ns]	0.0%
price_type	object	0.0%	Retail
product_source	object	0.0%	Local, Import
unit	object	0.0%	kg, ea, L
unit_type	object	0.0%
currency	object	0.0%
value	float64	5.8%	25.5 – 367968.0 (mean 12892.3008)
esa_source	object	0.0%
esa_processed	object	0.0%

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Numeric Summary

Column	Min	Max	Mean	Median
longitude	14.7148	20.9267	17.2839	16.493
latitude	8.5596	17.9287	12.1065	12.1867
value	25.5	367968.0	12892.3008	512.28

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Curation

Raw data was downloaded from HDX via the CKAN API and converted to Parquet. Column names were lowercased and standardised to snake_case. Common missing-value markers (N/A, null, none, -, unknown, no data, #N/A) were unified to NaN. 1 column(s) were cast from string to numeric or datetime based on parse-success rate (>85% threshold). The dataset was split 80/20 into train and test partitions using a fixed random seed (42) and saved as Snappy-compressed Parquet.

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Limitations

• Data originates from FEWS NET and has not been independently validated by ESA.
• Automated cleaning cannot correct for misreported values, definitional inconsistencies, or sampling bias in the original collection.
• Refer to the original HDX dataset page for the publisher's own methodology notes and caveats.

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Citation

@dataset{hdx_africa_fewsnet_staple_food_price_data_for_chad_weekly_124,
  title     = {Chad Weekly FEWS NET Staple Food Price Data},
  author    = {FEWS NET},
  year      = {2026},
  url       = {https://data.humdata.org/dataset/fewsnet_staple_food_price_data_for_chad_weekly_124},
  note      = {Repackaged for machine learning by Electric Sheep Africa (https://huggingface.co/electricsheepafrica)}
}

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