{
  "query": {
    "country": "IE",
    "item": "milk"
  },
  "status": "ok",
  "price": {
    "currency": "EUR",
    "unit": "per 2 litres",
    "value": 2.374,
    "measure": "average",
    "median": null,
    "typical_low": null,
    "typical_high": null,
    "min": null,
    "max": null
  },
  "sample_size": null,
  "period": {
    "from": "2026-09-01",
    "to": "2026-09-30"
  },
  "confidence": "high",
  "price_type": "official_statistic",
  "statistic": {
    "measure": "average",
    "reference_period": "2026-09"
  },
  "as_of": "2026-10-14T21:15:43.186Z",
  "source": {
    "id": "ie-cso-prices",
    "name": "National Average Price of selected consumer items (PxStat table CPM12), Consumer Price Index",
    "publisher": "Central Statistics Office (CSO), Ireland",
    "licence": "Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 (CC BY 4.0). The CSO states: \"Statistical information on this website is accessible free of charge and licensed under Creative Commons Attribution (CC BY 4.0).\"",
    "licence_url": "https://www.cso.ie/en/aboutus/whoweare/copyrightpolicy/",
    "attribution": "Source: Central Statistics Office, Ireland, PxStat table CPM12 'National Average Price' (average prices of selected consumer items, Consumer Price Index), https://data.cso.ie/table/CPM12. Licensed under CC BY 4.0. Prices are passed on as published; the change on a year earlier is calculated by ProofPrice.",
    "url": "https://data.cso.ie/table/CPM12"
  },
  "method": "The Central Statistics Office (CSO) publishes, each month with the Consumer Price Index, the national average shop price of about 76 standard consumer items (table CPM12), calculated from the shelf prices its price collectors record in shops. ProofPrice returns the published average for the item's latest month, unchanged, with the same month a year earlier, the month before and the last 13 months. No range is calculated: the CSO gives one average and does not say how many price quotes are behind it. These are shop prices recorded for the index, not receipts.",
  "method_url": "https://proofprice.com/method",
  "summary": "In Ireland the national average shop price of \"Full-fat milk, per 2 litres\" was €2.37 in September 2026 (Consumer Price Index price collection, not receipts). That is 3.7% lower than a year earlier (€2.47 in September 2025). Official average published by Central Statistics Office (CSO), Ireland for 2026-09.",
  "notice": "Information, not a valuation or offer. Ranges describe past recorded prices.",
  "extra": {
    "country_name": "Ireland",
    "item": {
      "code": "10630",
      "definition": "Full-fat milk, per 2 litres",
      "unit": "per 2 litres",
      "cso_label": "Full fat milk per 2 litre",
      "asked_for": "milk"
    },
    "what_this_is": "Average shelf price recorded by CSO price collectors in shops for the Consumer Price Index. Not a receipt and not the price at any one shop.",
    "reference_month": "2026-09",
    "reference_month_label": "September 2026",
    "change_on_year_earlier": {
      "reference_month": "2025-09",
      "value": 2.466,
      "change_percent": -3.7,
      "change_amount": -0.092
    },
    "change_on_previous_month": {
      "reference_month": "2026-08",
      "value": 2.382,
      "change_percent": -0.3,
      "change_amount": -0.008
    },
    "last_13_months": [
      {
        "month": "2025-09",
        "value": 2.466
      },
      {
        "month": "2025-10",
        "value": 2.429
      },
      {
        "month": "2025-11",
        "value": 2.417
      },
      {
        "month": "2025-12",
        "value": 2.415
      },
      {
        "month": "2026-01",
        "value": 2.415
      },
      {
        "month": "2026-02",
        "value": 2.417
      },
      {
        "month": "2026-03",
        "value": 2.423
      },
      {
        "month": "2026-04",
        "value": 2.384
      },
      {
        "month": "2026-05",
        "value": 2.382
      },
      {
        "month": "2026-06",
        "value": 2.382
      },
      {
        "month": "2026-07",
        "value": 2.382
      },
      {
        "month": "2026-08",
        "value": 2.382
      },
      {
        "month": "2026-09",
        "value": 2.374
      }
    ],
    "other_definitions": [
      {
        "item": "low fat milk",
        "definition": "Low-fat milk, per litre",
        "unit": "per litre"
      }
    ],
    "dataset": {
      "code": "CPM12",
      "title": "National Average Price",
      "updated": "2026-10-08T11:00:00.000Z",
      "latest_month_in_table": "2026-09",
      "url": "https://data.cso.ie/table/CPM12"
    }
  },
  "answer_id": "ans_d083c08965f551a1d5b6",
  "method_version": "1",
  "retrieved_at": "2026-10-14T21:15:43.186Z",
  "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."
  }
}