{
  "query": {
    "country": "SG",
    "item": "eggs"
  },
  "status": "ok",
  "price": {
    "currency": "SGD",
    "unit": "per 10 eggs",
    "value": 3.29,
    "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": "2026-10-30T09:45:55.583Z",
  "source": {
    "id": "sg-singstat-prices",
    "name": "Average Retail Prices of Selected Consumer Items, Monthly (SingStat table M213761)",
    "publisher": "Department of Statistics Singapore (SingStat)",
    "licence": "Singapore Open Data Licence v1.0. SingStat's Terms of Use say that use of Datasets made available through its website (including the Table Builder) is subject to the Singapore Open Data Licence, which allows worldwide, perpetual, royalty-free use, commercially or non-commercially, with acknowledgement of the source and a link to the licence.",
    "licence_url": "https://data.gov.sg/open-data-licence",
    "attribution": "Contains information from Average Retail Prices of Selected Consumer Items (SingStat table M213761) accessed on the date in this answer's retrieved_at field from the Department of Statistics Singapore (SingStat), which is made available under the terms of the Singapore Open Data Licence version 1.0 https://data.gov.sg/open-data-licence . Figures are passed on as published; the change on a year earlier is calculated by ProofPrice. This is not an official SingStat product and SingStat does not endorse it.",
    "url": "https://tablebuilder.singstat.gov.sg/table/TS/M213761"
  },
  "method": "The Department of Statistics Singapore (SingStat) publishes, each month, the national average retail price of about 75 food, drink, hawker-meal and household items (table M213761), from the prices it records for the Consumer Price Index. ProofPrice returns the published average for the item's latest month, unchanged, with the month before and the same month a year earlier. No range is calculated: SingStat gives one average and does not say how many price quotes are behind it. These are shelf and stall prices recorded for statistics, not receipts.",
  "method_url": "https://proofprice.com/method",
  "summary": "In Singapore the national average price of \"Hen eggs, 10\" was S$3.29 in September 2026 (Department of Statistics Singapore, Consumer Price Index price survey, not receipts). That is unchanged from September 2025 a year earlier (S$3.29). Official average published by Department of Statistics Singapore (SingStat) for 2026-09.",
  "notice": "Information, not a valuation or offer. Ranges describe past recorded prices.",
  "extra": {
    "country_name": "Singapore",
    "item": {
      "definition": "Hen eggs, 10",
      "unit": "per 10 eggs",
      "singstat_label": "Hen Eggs (Per 10)",
      "asked_for": "eggs"
    },
    "what_this_is": "Average retail price recorded by the Department of Statistics Singapore for the Consumer Price Index. Not a receipt and not the price at any one shop or stall.",
    "reference_month": "2026-09",
    "reference_month_label": "September 2026",
    "change_on_year_earlier": {
      "reference_month": "2025-09",
      "value": 3.29,
      "change_percent": 0,
      "change_amount": 0
    },
    "change_on_previous_month": {
      "reference_month": "2026-08",
      "value": 3.25,
      "change_percent": 1.2,
      "change_amount": 0.04
    },
    "other_definitions": [],
    "dataset": {
      "code": "M213761",
      "title": "Average Retail Prices Of Selected Consumer Items, Monthly",
      "data_last_updated": "2026-10-23",
      "url": "https://tablebuilder.singstat.gov.sg/table/TS/M213761"
    },
    "basket_note": "Prices of items starting from January 2024 are based on the 2024-based CPI basket.  While they are indicative of the average transaction price levels in the same base period, they are not a measure of pure price movements across CPI baskets due to changes in the sample of brands/ varieties and outlets priced."
  },
  "answer_id": "ans_a44bf10934f1579e9f9a",
  "method_version": "1",
  "retrieved_at": "2026-10-30T09:45:55.583Z",
  "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": "2026-09-30",
  "data_age_days": 30,
  "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."
  ]
}