electricsheepafrica/africa-mauritius-tourist-arrivals-by-country-of-residence-and-mode-of-trave-0bda0cd0

Tourist Arrivals by Country of Residence and Mode of Trave | Africa (MDPA)

666 rows - 1 Africa country/area - 2018-2020 - 2 indicators - Engineered by Electric Sheep Africa

TL;DR

This dataset contains 666 rows from MDPA, covering Tourist Arrivals by Country of Residence and Mode of Trave. 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: Dataset refers to the Number of Tourist Arrivals by Country of Residence and Mode of Travel for the year 2018 and 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	666
Countries/areas	1
First period	2018
Last period	2020
Indicators	2
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	666	2018	2020	Mauritius

Indicators, Variables, Or Resource Contents

• tourist-arrivals-by-country-of-residence-and-mode-of-travel-by-air-8000545f - Tourist Arrivals by Country of Residence and Mode of Travel - by air(source_units_unspecified)
• tourist-arrivals-by-country-of-residence-and-mode-of-travel-by-sea-c22b54b4 - Tourist Arrivals by Country of Residence and Mode of Travel - by sea(source_units_unspecified)

Schema

Column	Type	Description	Example
indicator_id	string	Stable source or Electric Sheep Africa indicator identifier.	tourist-arrivals-by-country-of-residence-and-mode-of-travel-by-air-80...
indicator_name	string	Human-readable indicator name.	Tourist Arrivals by Country of Residence and Mode of Travel - by air
country_iso3	string	ISO3 country or area code.	MU
country_name	string	Country or area name.	Mauritius
year	int64	Observation year.	2018
value	double	Numeric observation value.	17734.0
unit	string	Measurement unit, when supplied by the source.	source_units_unspecified
dimension_continent	string	Source dimension retained during long-form normalization.	Europe
dimension_country_of_residence	string	Source dimension retained during long-form normalization.	Austria
dimension_country	string	Source dimension retained during long-form normalization.	``
source_period_start_year	int64	Start year inferred from source metadata.	2018
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.	2018-2020
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.	Tourist Arrivals by Country of Residence and Mode of Travel
source_resource	dictionary<values=string, indices=int8, ordered=0>	Source resource title, table name, or file name.	Tourist-Arrivals-by-Country-of-Residence-and-Mode-of-Travel_0.csv
source_package_id	dictionary<values=string, indices=int8, ordered=0>	Source package identifier.	59d3361a-0364-49ef-a8c4-765c7954c57e
source_resource_id	dictionary<values=string, indices=int8, ordered=0>	Source resource identifier.	a1fbfee4-d2fa-45b6-8dfb-d998837311a2
source_url	dictionary<values=string, indices=int8, ordered=0>	Original source URL or download URL.	https://data.govmu.org/dataset/59d3361a-0364-49ef-a8c4-765c7954c57e/r...
license_id	dictionary<values=string, indices=int8, ordered=0>	Source license identifier.	CC-BY-SA-4.0
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-by-country-of-residence-and-mode-of-trave-0bda0cd0")
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: Tourist-Arrivals-by-Country-of-Residence-and-Mode-of-Travel_0.csv
• License: CC BY-SA 4.0
• Retrieved/generated: 2026-08-08T17:12:29Z
• Hugging Face repo: electricsheepafrica/africa-mauritius-tourist-arrivals-by-country-of-residence-and-mode-of-trave-0bda0cd0

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_tourist_arrivals_by_country_of_residence_and_mode_of_trave_0bda_2020,
  title        = {Tourist Arrivals by Country of Residence and Mode of Trave | Africa (MDPA)},
  author       = {MDPA},
  year         = {2020},
  url          = {https://data.govmu.org/dataset/tourist-arrivals-country-residence-and-mode-travel},
  publisher    = {Hugging Face Datasets, engineered by Electric Sheep Africa},
  howpublished = {\url{https://huggingface.co/datasets/electricsheepafrica/africa-mauritius-tourist-arrivals-by-country-of-residence-and-mode-of-trave-0bda0cd0}}
}

License

Released under CC BY-SA 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-country-residence-and-mode-travel