{
  "query": {
    "country": "IE",
    "area": "County Cork",
    "age_group": "school-age",
    "care_type": null,
    "hours": null
  },
  "status": "ok",
  "price": {
    "currency": "EUR",
    "unit": "per week",
    "value": 75,
    "measure": "average",
    "median": null,
    "typical_low": null,
    "typical_high": null,
    "min": null,
    "max": null
  },
  "sample_size": null,
  "period": {
    "from": "2016-01-01",
    "to": "2016-12-31"
  },
  "confidence": "high",
  "price_type": "official_statistic",
  "statistic": {
    "measure": "average",
    "reference_period": "2016",
    "note": "This is 10 years old (2016): Irish childcare costs have changed a lot since, so use it only as a rough historic guide. The CSO reports what households said they paid on average for the paid childcare they use (all kinds and all hours together), by region. It is not a provider fee list, not full-time, and not split by care type; there is no separate infant or toddler figure. County Cork is in the South-West region, so the regional figure is shown."
  },
  "as_of": "2026-10-14T23:00:46.092Z",
  "source": {
    "id": "ie-childcare-fees",
    "name": "CCA12 - Cost of Childcare (QNHS childcare module)",
    "publisher": "Central Statistics Office (CSO), Ireland",
    "licence": "Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 (CC BY 4.0), as stated for this table on data.gov.ie (license_id CC-BY-4.0, license_title \"Creative Commons Attribution 4.0\"). Attribution to the Central Statistics Office, Ireland.",
    "licence_url": "https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/",
    "attribution": "Source: Central Statistics Office, Ireland, table CCA12 Cost of Childcare (QNHS childcare module 2016), licensed CC BY 4.0.",
    "url": "https://www.cso.ie/en/statistics/surveys/qnhsmoduleonchildcare/"
  },
  "method": "Ireland (CSO table CCA12, QNHS childcare module): the average cost per week of the paid childcare that households in the chosen region use, for the chosen group of children, as published by the Central Statistics Office for 2016. We pass on the published average; it is household-reported, regional, and ten years old. It is an average, not a range built from individual bills.",
  "method_url": "https://proofprice.com/method",
  "summary": "In 2016, 10 years ago, households in the South-West region using paid childcare for primary school children spent an average of €75.00 a week (about 15 hours a week at an average €5.20 an hour). Official average published by Central Statistics Office (CSO), Ireland for 2016.",
  "notice": "Information, not a valuation or offer. Ranges describe past recorded prices.",
  "extra": {
    "region": "South-West",
    "children": "Primary school children",
    "average_hourly_cost": 5.2,
    "average_hours_per_week": 15,
    "data_year": 2016,
    "data_age_years": 10,
    "price_basis": "average weekly cost of paid childcare reported by households (all care types, part-time and full-time together)",
    "coverage_note": "Regional (NUTS3) figures. The Pobal Early Years Sector Profile county fees are not available as open data."
  },
  "answer_id": "ans_43bd9e5be7503b7a9633",
  "method_version": "1",
  "retrieved_at": "2026-10-14T23:00:46.092Z",
  "evidence": {
    "type": "official_statistic",
    "label": "Official published average",
    "meaning": "One average or median that a statistics office or regulator publishes for a reference period: it describes a group, not a distribution, and says nothing about any single price."
  }
}