{
  "query": {
    "country": "DK",
    "area": "Copenhagen",
    "arrangement": "nursery"
  },
  "status": "ok",
  "price": {
    "currency": "DKK",
    "unit": "per year",
    "value": 50064,
    "measure": "average",
    "median": null,
    "typical_low": null,
    "typical_high": null,
    "min": null,
    "max": null
  },
  "sample_size": null,
  "period": {
    "from": "2026-01-01",
    "to": "2026-12-31"
  },
  "confidence": "high",
  "price_type": "official_statistic",
  "statistic": {
    "measure": "average",
    "reference_period": "2026",
    "note": "Posted municipal rate before sibling and income-based reductions, so families often pay less than this."
  },
  "as_of": "2026-11-05T15:04:01.951Z",
  "source": {
    "id": "dk-dst-childcare",
    "name": "Yearly rates of child-care by municipality (Statistics Denmark, StatBank table RES88, Takster for børnepasning)",
    "publisher": "Statistics Denmark (Danmarks Statistik)",
    "licence": "Statistics Denmark: free re-use including commercial, source credit required (equivalent to CC BY 4.0)",
    "licence_url": "https://www.dst.dk/en/presse/kildeangivelse",
    "attribution": "Source: Statistics Denmark - StatBank.dk/RES88. Own calculations based on data from Statistics Denmark where ProofPrice has processed the figure.",
    "url": "https://www.dst.dk/da/Statistik/dokumentation/statistikdokumentation/takster-for-boernepasning"
  },
  "method": "Denmark (Statistics Denmark, StatBank table RES88, Takster for børnepasning): the yearly parental rate for a full-time place that the municipality (or, for All Denmark, the national average of the municipalities) sets for the chosen arrangement, DKK per child per year. We pass on the published figure and its year; it is a posted rate, not a range and not what each family paid.",
  "method_url": "https://proofprice.com/method",
  "summary": "In 2026, the posted yearly parental rate for a nursery place (vuggestue, age 0-2) in Copenhagen was DKK 50,064 per year. Official average published by Statistics Denmark (Danmarks Statistik) for 2026.",
  "notice": "Information, not a valuation or offer. Ranges describe past recorded prices.",
  "extra": {
    "municipality": {
      "name": "Copenhagen",
      "statbank_code": "101"
    },
    "arrangement": {
      "code": "F03",
      "item": "nursery"
    },
    "per_month_if_12_equal_parts": 4172,
    "previous_year": {
      "year": "2025",
      "value": 47952,
      "change_percent": 4.4
    },
    "same_year_other_arrangements": {
      "nursery": 50064,
      "home-0-2": 49140,
      "home-3-5": null,
      "kindergarten": 27996,
      "school-care": 22462
    },
    "table_updated": "2026-04-08T06:00:00Z",
    "fee_kind": "posted municipal yearly parental rate, DKK per child place per year, before reductions"
  },
  "answer_id": "ans_fc855ad2787a12fb8415",
  "method_version": "1",
  "retrieved_at": "2026-11-05T15:04:01.950Z",
  "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."
  },
  "reliability": "official_median_no_count",
  "data_as_of": "2026-11-05",
  "data_age_days": 0,
  "suggestions": [
    "This is one published figure (an average, median, index or listed price) with no record count: use it as a reference point, not as a range of what individuals paid.",
    "For a decision on a specific job or purchase, ask for an itemised quote."
  ]
}