electricsheepafrica/africa-mauritius-tourist-arrivals-per-semester-2019-2023-9f434501

Tourist Arrivals Per Semester 2019 2023 | Africa (MDPA)

10 rows - 1 Africa country/area - 2019-2023 - 1 indicator - Engineered by Electric Sheep Africa

TL;DR

This dataset contains 10 rows from MDPA, covering Tourist Arrivals Per Semester 2019 2023. 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: Dataset shows Tourist arrivals per semester, 2019 – 2023

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	10
Countries/areas	1
First period	2019
Last period	2023
Indicators	1
Columns	20
Source format	XLSX

Geographic Coverage

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

Area	Rows	First year	Last year	Name
MU	10	2019	2023	Mauritius

Indicators, Variables, Or Resource Contents

• tourist-arrivals-per-semester-2019-2023-9f434501 - Tourist arrivals per semester, 2019 – 2023(source_units_unspecified)

Schema

Column	Type	Description	Example
indicator_id	string	Stable source or Electric Sheep Africa indicator identifier.	tourist-arrivals-per-semester-2019-2023-9f434501
indicator_name	string	Human-readable indicator name.	Tourist arrivals per semester, 2019 – 2023
country_iso3	string	ISO3 country or area code.	MU
source_sheet	string	Source column from the original resource.	Sheet1
country_name	string	Country or area name.	Mauritius
year	int64	Observation year.	2019
value	double	Numeric observation value.	650082.0
unit	string	Measurement unit, when supplied by the source.	source_units_unspecified
dimension_year	string	Source dimension retained during long-form normalization.	Semester 1
source_period_start_year	int64	Start year inferred from source metadata.	2019
source_period_end_year	int64	End year inferred from source metadata.	2023
source_period_label	dictionary<values=string, indices=int8, ordered=0>	Source column from the original resource.	2019-2023
source_provider	dictionary<values=string, indices=int8, ordered=0>	Publishing organization.	MDPA
source_dataset	dictionary<values=string, indices=int8, ordered=0>	Source dataset or package title.	Tourist arrivals per semester, 2019 – 2023
source_resource	dictionary<values=string, indices=int8, ordered=0>	Source resource title, table name, or file name.	Source File
source_package_id	dictionary<values=string, indices=int8, ordered=0>	Source package identifier.	2531bfa3-c58a-4a0c-b1c8-6ea2a83f92ae
source_resource_id	dictionary<values=string, indices=int8, ordered=0>	Source resource identifier.	b25ce44d-995c-4cba-bf14-01de6af4d024
source_url	dictionary<values=string, indices=int8, ordered=0>	Original source URL or download URL.	https://data.govmu.org/dataset/2531bfa3-c58a-4a0c-b1c8-6ea2a83f92ae/r...
license_id	dictionary<values=string, indices=int8, ordered=0>	Source license identifier.	cc-by
retrieved_at	dictionary<values=string, indices=int8, ordered=0>	UTC source retrieval timestamp from the Electric Sheep Africa pipeline.	2026-08-08T16:26:20Z

Usage

from datasets import load_dataset

ds = load_dataset("electricsheepafrica/africa-mauritius-tourist-arrivals-per-semester-2019-2023-9f434501")
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"] == "MU"]

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: MDPA
• Publisher: MDPA
• Portal: https://data.govmu.org
• Resource: Source File
• License: CC BY 4.0
• Retrieved/generated: 2026-08-08T16:52:25Z
• Hugging Face repo: electricsheepafrica/africa-mauritius-tourist-arrivals-per-semester-2019-2023-9f434501

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_mauritius_tourist_arrivals_per_semester_2019_2023_9f434501_2023,
  title        = {Tourist Arrivals Per Semester 2019 2023 | Africa (MDPA)},
  author       = {MDPA},
  year         = {2023},
  url          = {https://data.govmu.org/dataset/tourist-arrivals-per-semester-2019-2023},
  publisher    = {Hugging Face Datasets, engineered by Electric Sheep Africa},
  howpublished = {\url{https://huggingface.co/datasets/electricsheepafrica/africa-mauritius-tourist-arrivals-per-semester-2019-2023-9f434501}}
}

License

Released under CC BY 4.0.

Original data is published by MDPA. 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.

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Provenance: README standardized 2026-08-11 by the Electric Sheep Africa README system. Source URL: https://data.govmu.org/dataset/tourist-arrivals-per-semester-2019-2023