| # | period | period_start | year | period_kind | product | status | value | unit |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| loading... | ||||||||
| COLUMN | TYPE | DESCRIPTION | UNIT |
|---|---|---|---|
| period | string | YYYY-MM for a month, YYYY for a twelve-month average. Read with period_kind, never alone. | - |
| period_start | date | First day of the month, or 1 January of the year for a twelve-month average | - |
| year | int64 | Calendar year | - |
| period_kind | string | month or twelve-month average. The average is the figure KNBS prints for the year and covers twelve months even where only five are published, so it must never be read as a sixth month or averaged together with them. | - |
| product | string | Motor Spirit Premium, Light Diesel Oil, Illuminating Kerosene, or Liqufied Petroleum Gas (LPG). Spelling is KNBS's own. | - |
| status | string | final or provisional | - |
| value | float64 | Price, in the unit named by the unit column | - |
| unit | string | ksh_per_litre for the three liquid fuels, ksh_per_13kg_cylinder for LPG. Two units in one dataset; do not plot them on one axis. | - |
import imibare as imi
df = imi.load("ke.knbs.fuel-prices-retail.monthly")
print(df.head())import duckdb
duckdb.sql("""
ATTACH 'https://catalog.cloudflarestorage.com/imibare-data'
AS imi (TYPE ICEBERG, READ_ONLY)
""")
duckdb.sql("SELECT * FROM imi.ke_knbs_fuel-prices-retail_monthly LIMIT 10").show()curl -L "https://api.imibare.org/v1/data/ke.knbs.fuel-prices-retail.monthly/download" \
-o "ke.knbs.fuel-prices-retail.monthly.parquet"# List all datasets
curl "https://api.imibare.org/v1/datasets"
# Get metadata for this dataset
curl "https://api.imibare.org/v1/datasets/ke.knbs.fuel-prices-retail.monthly"Every version is a change in the data, and every one is retained; snapshots are never overwritten. Each entry is a dated Parquet snapshot in the dataset's versions/ archive.
- 2026-08-18 Aug 18, 2026 LATEST252 rows · 7.5 KB · initial version
imibare contributors. (2026). Average Retail Prices of Petroleum Fuels [Data set]. imibare. v2026-08-18. https://imibare.org/datasets/ke.knbs.fuel-prices-retail.monthly
@dataset{imibare_ke_knbs_fuel-prices-retail_monthly, author = {imibare contributors}, title = {Average Retail Prices of Petroleum Fuels}, year = {2026}, publisher = {imibare}, version = {v2026-08-18}, url = {https://imibare.org/datasets/ke.knbs.fuel-prices-retail.monthly} }
imibare contributors. Average Retail Prices of Petroleum Fuels. v2026-08-18. imibare, 2026. https://imibare.org/datasets/ke.knbs.fuel-prices-retail.monthly.
imibare contributors. Average Retail Prices of Petroleum Fuels. v2026-08-18, imibare, 2026, https://imibare.org/datasets/ke.knbs.fuel-prices-retail.monthly.