electricsheepafrica/africa-faostat-food-prices-for-algeria

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language_creators:
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- en
license: cc-by-4.0
multilinguality:
- monolingual
size_categories:
- n<1K
source_datasets:
- original
task_categories:
- tabular-regression
task_ids: []
tags:
- africa
- humanitarian
- hdx
- electric-sheep-africa
- food-security
- indicators
- dza
pretty_name: "Algeria - Food Prices"
dataset_info:
splits:
- name: train
num_examples: 350
- name: test
num_examples: 87
---

# Algeria - Food Prices

**Publisher:** Food and Agriculture Organization (FAO) of the United Nations · **Source:** [HDX](https://data.humdata.org/dataset/faostat-food-prices-for-algeria) · **License:** `cc-by-igo` · **Updated:** 2026-04-06

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## Abstract

Food Prices for Algeria.

Contains data from the FAOSTAT [bulk data service](https://fenixservices.fao.org/faostat/static/bulkdownloads/datasets_E.json) covering the following categories: Consumer Price Indices, Deflators, Exchange rates, Producer Prices

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

*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)** | 438 |
| **Columns** | 17 (6 numeric, 9 categorical, 2 datetime) |
| **Train split** | 350 rows |
| **Test split** | 87 rows |
| **Geographic scope** | DZA |
| **Publisher** | Food and Agriculture Organization (FAO) of the United Nations |
| **HDX last updated** | 2026-04-06 |

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## Variables

**Geographic** — `iso3` (DZA), `year_code` (range 1970.0–2024.0), `year` (range 1970.0–2024.0).

**Temporal** — `startdate`, `enddate`.

**Outcome / Measurement** — `value` (range 0.7193–194.0387).

**Identifier / Metadata** — `area_code` (range 4.0–4.0), `area_code_m49` ('012), `item_code` (range 22024.0–22028.0), `element_code` (range 6179.0–62250.0), `esa_source` (HDX) and 1 others.

**Other** — `area` (Algeria), `item` (GDP Deflator, Gross Fixed Capital Formation Deflator, Value Added Deflator (Agriculture, forestry and fishery)), `element` (Value Standard Local Currency, 2015 prices, Value US$, 2015 prices), `unit` (SLC, USD), `flag` (X, E).

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## Quick Start

```python
from datasets import load_dataset

ds = load_dataset("electricsheepafrica/africa-faostat-food-prices-for-algeria")
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| `iso3` | object | 0.0% | DZA |
| `startdate` | datetime64[ns] | 0.0% | |
| `enddate` | datetime64[ns] | 0.0% | |
| `area_code` | int64 | 0.0% | 4.0 – 4.0 (mean 4.0) |
| `area_code_m49` | object | 0.0% | '012 |
| `area` | object | 0.0% | Algeria |
| `item_code` | int64 | 0.0% | 22024.0 – 22028.0 (mean 22025.7397) |
| `item` | object | 0.0% | GDP Deflator, Gross Fixed Capital Formation Deflator, Value Added Deflator (Agriculture, forestry and fishery) |
| `element_code` | int64 | 0.0% | 6179.0 – 62250.0 (mean 34214.5) |
| `element` | object | 0.0% | Value Standard Local Currency, 2015 prices, Value US$, 2015 prices |
| `year_code` | int64 | 0.0% | 1970.0 – 2024.0 (mean 1996.8767) |
| `year` | int64 | 0.0% | 1970.0 – 2024.0 (mean 1996.8767) |
| `unit` | object | 0.0% | SLC, USD |
| `value` | float64 | 0.0% | 0.7193 – 194.0387 (mean 64.8923) |
| `flag` | object | 0.0% | X, E |
| `esa_source` | object | 0.0% | HDX |
| `esa_processed` | object | 0.0% | 2026-04-07 |

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## Numeric Summary

| Column | Min | Max | Mean | Median |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| `area_code` | 4.0 | 4.0 | 4.0 | 4.0 |
| `item_code` | 22024.0 | 22028.0 | 22025.7397 | 22025.0 |
| `element_code` | 6179.0 | 62250.0 | 34214.5 | 34214.5 |
| `year_code` | 1970.0 | 2024.0 | 1996.8767 | 1997.0 |
| `year` | 1970.0 | 2024.0 | 1996.8767 | 1997.0 |
| `value` | 0.7193 | 194.0387 | 64.8923 | 67.1513 |

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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`. 2 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 Food and Agriculture Organization (FAO) of the United Nations 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/faostat-food-prices-for-algeria) for the publisher's own methodology notes and caveats.

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## Citation

```bibtex
@dataset{hdx_africa_faostat_food_prices_for_algeria,
title = {Algeria - Food Prices},
author = {Food and Agriculture Organization (FAO) of the United Nations},
year = {2026},
url = {https://data.humdata.org/dataset/faostat-food-prices-for-algeria},
note = {Repackaged for machine learning by Electric Sheep Africa (https://huggingface.co/electricsheepafrica)}
}
```

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