{
  "query": {
    "country": "US",
    "item": "coffee"
  },
  "status": "ok",
  "price": {
    "currency": "USD",
    "unit": "per lb (453.6 g)",
    "value": 9.332,
    "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": "2026-10-14T21:26:46.809Z",
  "source": {
    "id": "us-bls-average-prices",
    "name": "CPI Average Price Data (AP): food, drink and household items",
    "publisher": "U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics (BLS)",
    "licence": "Public domain. BLS states: \"The Bureau of Labor Statistics (BLS) is a Federal government agency and everything that we publish, both in hard copy and electronically, is in the public domain, except for previously copyrighted photographs and illustrations. You are free to use our public domain material without specific permission, although we do ask that you cite the Bureau of Labor Statistics as the source.\"",
    "licence_url": "https://www.bls.gov/opub/copyright-information.htm",
    "attribution": "Source: U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics, CPI Average Price Data (series APU), https://download.bls.gov/pub/time.series/ap/ . Public domain; BLS asks that it is cited as the source. Prices are passed on as published; the change on a year earlier is calculated by ProofPrice. ProofPrice is not endorsed by BLS.",
    "url": "https://download.bls.gov/pub/time.series/ap/"
  },
  "method": "The U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics publishes, each month, the average retail price of about 50 standard food and drink items for the U.S. city average and four regions, calculated from the prices its data collectors record in stores for the Consumer Price Index (series APU). ProofPrice copies the file once a day and returns the published average for the item's newest month, unchanged, with the same month a year earlier, the month before and the other regions. No range is calculated: BLS gives one average and does not say how many price quotes are behind it. These are store prices recorded for the index, not receipts.",
  "method_url": "https://proofprice.com/method",
  "summary": "In the United States (U.S. city average) the average retail price of \"Coffee, 100% ground roast, all sizes, per lb (453.6 g)\" was $9.33 in September 2026 (Consumer Price Index store price collection, not receipts). That is 2.1% higher than a year earlier ($9.14 in September 2025). Official average published by U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics (BLS) for 2026-09.",
  "notice": "Information, not a valuation or offer. Ranges describe past recorded prices.",
  "extra": {
    "country_name": "United States",
    "area": {
      "code": "0000",
      "name": "U.S. city average"
    },
    "item": {
      "code": "717311",
      "definition": "Coffee, 100% ground roast, all sizes, per lb (453.6 g)",
      "unit": "per lb (453.6 g)",
      "series_id": "APU0000717311",
      "asked_for": "coffee"
    },
    "what_this_is": "Average store price recorded by BLS data collectors for the Consumer Price Index. Not a receipt and not the price at any one store.",
    "reference_month": "2026-09",
    "reference_month_label": "September 2026",
    "change_on_year_earlier": {
      "reference_month": "2025-09",
      "value": 9.139,
      "change_percent": 2.1,
      "change_amount": 0.193
    },
    "change_on_previous_month": {
      "reference_month": "2026-08",
      "value": 9.299,
      "change_percent": 0.4,
      "change_amount": 0.033
    },
    "other_areas": [],
    "other_definitions": [],
    "bls_note": "BLS: average prices are best used to measure the price level in a particular month, not to measure price change over time; its CPI index values are more appropriate for price change.",
    "dataset": {
      "name": "BLS CPI Average Price Data (AP)",
      "url": "https://download.bls.gov/pub/time.series/ap/",
      "newest_month_held": "2026-09"
    }
  },
  "answer_id": "ans_f7f6432b3fa89b919ab5",
  "method_version": "1",
  "retrieved_at": "2026-10-14T21:26:46.809Z",
  "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."
  }
}