electricsheepafrica/africa-mauritius-monthly-tourist-arrival-by-country-of-residence-for-the-ye-f0fc8f1b

Monthly Tourist Arrival by Country of Residence for the Ye | Africa (MDPA)

5,328 rows - 1 Africa country/area - 2017-2020 - 12 indicators - Engineered by Electric Sheep Africa

TL;DR

This dataset contains 5,328 rows from MDPA, covering Monthly Tourist Arrival by Country of Residence for the Ye. It is published as ML-ready Parquet with consistent Hugging Face metadata, source provenance, and analysis-friendly loading examples.

What This Dataset Measures

Official statistics datasets help analysts inspect public data as published by governments, national statistical systems, and regional data portals.

Source-provided context: The data shows number of tourist arrival broken down by year, month and country of residence for the year 2017 to year 2020

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	5,328
Countries/areas	1
First period	2017
Last period	2020
Indicators	12
Columns	21
Source format	CSV

Geographic Coverage

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

Area	Rows	First year	Last year	Name
MU	5,328	2017	2020	Mauritius

Indicators, Variables, Or Resource Contents

• monthly-tourist-arrival-by-country-of-residence-for-the-year-2017-2020-j-4fbc21eb - Monthly tourist arrival by country of residence for the year 2017-2020 - january(source_units_unspecified)
• monthly-tourist-arrival-by-country-of-residence-for-the-year-2017-2020-f-79d2cfc8 - Monthly tourist arrival by country of residence for the year 2017-2020 - february(source_units_unspecified)
• monthly-tourist-arrival-by-country-of-residence-for-the-year-2017-2020-m-8cbe321c - Monthly tourist arrival by country of residence for the year 2017-2020 - march(source_units_unspecified)
• monthly-tourist-arrival-by-country-of-residence-for-the-year-2017-2020-a-7b240b53 - Monthly tourist arrival by country of residence for the year 2017-2020 - april(source_units_unspecified)
• monthly-tourist-arrival-by-country-of-residence-for-the-year-2017-2020-m-a9e76d33 - Monthly tourist arrival by country of residence for the year 2017-2020 - may(source_units_unspecified)
• monthly-tourist-arrival-by-country-of-residence-for-the-year-2017-2020-j-49c29246 - Monthly tourist arrival by country of residence for the year 2017-2020 - june(source_units_unspecified)
• monthly-tourist-arrival-by-country-of-residence-for-the-year-2017-2020-j-e3feb643 - Monthly tourist arrival by country of residence for the year 2017-2020 - july(source_units_unspecified)
• monthly-tourist-arrival-by-country-of-residence-for-the-year-2017-2020-a-b7c8a8b6 - Monthly tourist arrival by country of residence for the year 2017-2020 - august(source_units_unspecified)
• monthly-tourist-arrival-by-country-of-residence-for-the-year-2017-2020-s-644f1164 - Monthly tourist arrival by country of residence for the year 2017-2020 - september(source_units_unspecified)
• monthly-tourist-arrival-by-country-of-residence-for-the-year-2017-2020-o-6a60034d - Monthly tourist arrival by country of residence for the year 2017-2020 - october(source_units_unspecified)
• monthly-tourist-arrival-by-country-of-residence-for-the-year-2017-2020-n-f5d66e37 - Monthly tourist arrival by country of residence for the year 2017-2020 - november(source_units_unspecified)
• monthly-tourist-arrival-by-country-of-residence-for-the-year-2017-2020-d-89f49888 - Monthly tourist arrival by country of residence for the year 2017-2020 - december(source_units_unspecified)

Schema

Column	Type	Description	Example
indicator_id	string	Stable source or Electric Sheep Africa indicator identifier.	monthly-tourist-arrival-by-country-of-residence-for-the-year-2017-202...
indicator_name	string	Human-readable indicator name.	Monthly tourist arrival by country of residence for the year 2017-202...
country_iso3	string	ISO3 country or area code.	MU
country_name	string	Country or area name.	Mauritius
year	int64	Observation year.	2017
value	double	Numeric observation value.	2289.0
unit	string	Measurement unit, when supplied by the source.	source_units_unspecified
dimension_continent_state	string	Source dimension retained during long-form normalization.	Europe
dimension_country_of_residence	string	Source dimension retained during long-form normalization.	Austria
dimension_sub_state	string	Source dimension retained during long-form normalization.	``
source_period_start_year	int64	Start year inferred from source metadata.	2017
source_period_end_year	int64	End year inferred from source metadata.	2020
source_period_label	dictionary<values=string, indices=int8, ordered=0>	Source column from the original resource.	2017-2020
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.	Monthly tourist arrival by country of residence for the year 2017-2020
source_resource	dictionary<values=string, indices=int8, ordered=0>	Source resource title, table name, or file name.	Monthly tourist arrival by country of residence_2017-2020.csv
source_package_id	dictionary<values=string, indices=int8, ordered=0>	Source package identifier.	3e903628-688f-402a-a248-f0779d9d272f
source_resource_id	dictionary<values=string, indices=int8, ordered=0>	Source resource identifier.	f13efbef-26db-4ea9-a55e-56652a45888c
source_url	dictionary<values=string, indices=int8, ordered=0>	Original source URL or download URL.	https://data.govmu.org/dataset/3e903628-688f-402a-a248-f0779d9d272f/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-monthly-tourist-arrival-by-country-of-residence-for-the-ye-f0fc8f1b")
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: Monthly tourist arrival by country of residence_2017-2020.csv
• License: CC BY 4.0
• Retrieved/generated: 2026-08-08T16:56:05Z
• Hugging Face repo: electricsheepafrica/africa-mauritius-monthly-tourist-arrival-by-country-of-residence-for-the-ye-f0fc8f1b

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

• Profile the distribution of values
• Compare categories or geographies
• Join with complementary public datasets
• 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_monthly_tourist_arrival_by_country_of_residence_for_the_ye_f0fc_2020,
  title        = {Monthly Tourist Arrival by Country of Residence for the Ye | Africa (MDPA)},
  author       = {MDPA},
  year         = {2020},
  url          = {https://data.govmu.org/dataset/monthly-tourist-arrival-by-country-of-residence-for-the-year-2017-2020},
  publisher    = {Hugging Face Datasets, engineered by Electric Sheep Africa},
  howpublished = {\url{https://huggingface.co/datasets/electricsheepafrica/africa-mauritius-monthly-tourist-arrival-by-country-of-residence-for-the-ye-f0fc8f1b}}
}

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/monthly-tourist-arrival-by-country-of-residence-for-the-year-2017-2020