electricsheepafrica/africa-fewsnet-staple-food-price-data-for-congo-the-democratic-republic-of-the-weekly-6511

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- en
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multilinguality:
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size_categories:
- 10K<n<100K
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task_categories:
- tabular-regression
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task_ids: []
tags:
- africa
- humanitarian
- hdx
- electric-sheep-africa
- economics
- food-security
- indicators
- markets
- cod
pretty_name: "Congo, The Democratic Republic of Weekly FEWS NET Staple Food Price Data"
dataset_info:
splits:
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num_examples: 79608
- name: test
num_examples: 19902
---

# Congo, The Democratic Republic of Weekly FEWS NET Staple Food Price Data

**Publisher:** FEWS NET · **Source:** [HDX](https://data.humdata.org/dataset/fewsnet_staple_food_price_data_for_congo__the_democratic_republic_of_the_weekly_6511) · **License:** `cc-by` · **Updated:** 2026-04-01

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## Abstract

Congo

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

*Curated into ML-ready Parquet format by [Electric Sheep Africa](https://huggingface.co/electricsheepafrica).*

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## Dataset Characteristics

| | |
|---|---|
| **Domain** | Food security and nutrition |
| **Unit of observation** | Country-level aggregates |
| **Rows (total)** | 99,510 |
| **Columns** | 18 (3 numeric, 14 categorical, 1 datetime) |
| **Train split** | 79,608 rows |
| **Test split** | 19,902 rows |
| **Geographic scope** | COD |
| **Publisher** | FEWS NET |
| **HDX last updated** | 2026-04-01 |

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## Variables

**Geographic** — `country` (Democratic Republic of the Congo), `admin_1` (North Kivu, South Kivu, Haut-Katanga), `longitude` (range 13.4612–30.2468), `latitude` (range -12.2516–4.279), `price_type` (Retail, Wage) and 2 others.

**Temporal** — `period_date`.

**Outcome / Measurement** — `value` (range 8.0–168000000.0).

**Identifier / Metadata** — `fnid` (CD0000M031, CD0000M048, CD0000M035), `source_document` (Famine Early Warning Systems Network (FEWS NET), Democratic Republic of the Congo, Price (weekly)), `product_source` (Local, Import), `esa_source`, `esa_processed`.

**Other** — `market` (Beni, Kilokwa, Kananga, Ndesha, Bunia, Marché central), `cpcv2` (P23161AA, R01701AA, P23170AA), `product` (Rice (Milled), Beans (mixed), Cassava Flour), `unit` (kg, L, ea).

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## Quick Start

```python
from datasets import load_dataset

ds = load_dataset("electricsheepafrica/africa-fewsnet-staple-food-price-data-for-congo-the-democratic-republic-of-the-weekly-6511")
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% | Democratic Republic of the Congo |
| `fnid` | object | 0.0% | CD0000M031, CD0000M048, CD0000M035 |
| `market` | object | 0.0% | Beni, Kilokwa, Kananga, Ndesha, Bunia, Marché central |
| `admin_1` | object | 0.0% | North Kivu, South Kivu, Haut-Katanga |
| `longitude` | float64 | 0.0% | 13.4612 – 30.2468 (mean 24.2767) |
| `latitude` | float64 | 0.0% | -12.2516 – 4.279 (mean -4.346) |
| `cpcv2` | object | 0.0% | P23161AA, R01701AA, P23170AA |
| `product` | object | 0.0% | Rice (Milled), Beans (mixed), Cassava Flour |
| `source_document` | object | 0.0% | Famine Early Warning Systems Network (FEWS NET), Democratic Republic of the Congo, Price (weekly) |
| `period_date` | datetime64[ns] | 0.0% | |
| `price_type` | object | 0.0% | Retail, Wage |
| `product_source` | object | 0.0% | Local, Import |
| `unit` | object | 0.0% | kg, L, ea |
| `unit_type` | object | 0.0% | |
| `currency` | object | 0.0% | |
| `value` | float64 | 16.7% | 8.0 – 168000000.0 (mean 67771.2602) |
| `esa_source` | object | 0.0% | |
| `esa_processed` | object | 0.0% | |

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## Numeric Summary

| Column | Min | Max | Mean | Median |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| `longitude` | 13.4612 | 30.2468 | 24.2767 | 25.9224 |
| `latitude` | -12.2516 | 4.279 | -4.346 | -4.3276 |
| `value` | 8.0 | 168000000.0 | 67771.2602 | 2625.0 |

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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](https://data.humdata.org/dataset/fewsnet_staple_food_price_data_for_congo__the_democratic_republic_of_the_weekly_6511) for the publisher's own methodology notes and caveats.

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## Citation

```bibtex
@dataset{hdx_africa_fewsnet_staple_food_price_data_for_congo_the_democratic_republic_of_the_weekly_6511,
title = {Congo, The Democratic Republic of Weekly FEWS NET Staple Food Price Data},
author = {FEWS NET},
year = {2026},
url = {https://data.humdata.org/dataset/fewsnet_staple_food_price_data_for_congo__the_democratic_republic_of_the_weekly_6511},
note = {Repackaged for machine learning by Electric Sheep Africa (https://huggingface.co/electricsheepafrica)}
}
```

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