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    "country": "DE",
    "measure": "inflation",
    "spend": "TOTAL"
  },
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  "price": {
    "currency": "INDEX",
    "unit": "consumer price index (2025 = 100)",
    "value": 103.93,
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    "typical_high": null,
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    "max": null
  },
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    "from": "2026-09-01",
    "to": "2026-09-30"
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    "note": "An index of how consumer prices moved, not a price in money and not a receipt."
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    "id": "eu-eurostat-hicp",
    "name": "Harmonised index of consumer prices (HICP), monthly data, ECOICOP version 2 (prc_hicp_minr)",
    "publisher": "Eurostat (European Commission)",
    "licence": "Eurostat authorises reuse for commercial and non-commercial purposes provided the source is acknowledged (Commission Decision 2011/833/EU)",
    "licence_url": "https://ec.europa.eu/eurostat/help/copyright-notice",
    "attribution": "Source: Eurostat, dataset prc_hicp_minr (HICP, monthly data, https://doi.org/10.2908/PRC_HICP_MINR), reused under the Eurostat copyright notice. Index values and rates of change are passed on as published; Eurostat has no responsibility for how ProofPrice presents them.",
    "url": "https://ec.europa.eu/eurostat/databrowser/view/prc_hicp_minr/default/table?lang=en"
  },
  "method": "Eurostat publishes every month the harmonised index of consumer prices (HICP, dataset prc_hicp_minr, 2025 = 100) for each country and spending division, compiled by the national statistics offices, with the change on the previous month and on the same month a year earlier. ProofPrice returns the published index for the newest month Eurostat holds for the country, unchanged, with the two rates of change and the months before. It is an index of price change, not a price in money, and no range is calculated.",
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  "summary": "Consumer prices for all items (overall consumer prices) in Germany stood at an index of 103.93 in September 2026 (2025 = 100), 3.3% higher than a year earlier and 0.6% higher than the month before. Official index value published by Eurostat (European Commission) for 2026-09.",
  "notice": "Information, not a valuation or offer. Ranges describe past recorded prices.",
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      "title": "Harmonised index of consumer prices (HICP) - ECOICOP ver.2 - indices and rates of change, monthly data",
      "updated": "2026-10-16T23:00:00+0200",
      "doi": "https://doi.org/10.2908/PRC_HICP_MINR",
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    "label": "Official published index",
    "meaning": "An index value a statistics office publishes to show how prices move over time or compare between places (against a base of 100): it is not a price anyone paid."
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  "data_as_of": "2026-09-30",
  "data_age_days": 35,
  "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."
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}