kfalayi/Food-price-Nigeria

An analysis of food price index in Nigeria that looks at insecurity as a cause for food inflation # Nigeria is battling a food price inflation, I try to look at what the data says Analysis of available data shows that much of Nigeria's food producing states are battling violent activities. Is this the cause of the food inflation seen in different parts of the country, especially the southern part of the country where the prices are higher? Nigeria has been facing consistent food inflation over the last few years as it fights insecurity in form of insurgency, gang activities and uptick in general social crimes. The purpose of this project is to find out what the data reveals about the impact of this insecurity on the current food price hike. ## Datasets For this analysis, I depended on the data from Nigeria's National Bureau of Statistics, which collects and publishes food price index every year. This has been consistent for more than 5 yyears but for this story, I used the food price index data from 2017, which is this file Also, I used another dataset from the same agency which shows the average prices of the same food commodities listed in the previous dataset but this time, it shows the price in each state for December 2021 month. December was the most current price index available. The prices in the datasets are in Naira and I decided to stick to that. $1 equalis ₦416.2. For each item in the dataset, for anyone who is wondering about the unit of measurement, they are explained on pages 4 to 14 of this NBS report. A needed another data that gives an insight on the security issues of Nigeria, the best I could find is Council on Foreign Affairs which collates data on different forms of violent activities in the country and I used its security tracker data, which covers the last 10 years. # Data Analysis Analyis is done using Python with Pandas and Plotnine. The most important tools to import initially are pandas and all the plotnine's syntactic tools. I first import my initial dataset, which does not allow me to do the needed analysis because the dates …