{
  "name": "EU27 food price levels, provisional 2025",
  "dataYear": 2025,
  "sourceDataDate": "2026-06-17",
  "sourceRetrievalDateUTC": "2026-10-22",
  "estimateStatus": "Provisional 2025 midyear PPP estimates; fixed June 2026 workbook snapshot",
  "unit": "Price level index, each category EU=100",
  "classification": "COICOP 2018; no cross-year splicing",
  "geography": "EU27 data extract; chart highlights Bulgaria",
  "foodAggregate": "Food excludes non-alcoholic beverages; separate combined field retained and explicitly labelled",
  "valueHandling": "Source workbook numeric format 0.0; Decimal half-up to one decimal removes OOXML binary float serialization noise; no economic re-estimation.",
  "percentDifferenceFormula": "price_index_eu100 - 100",
  "missingValues": 0,
  "rows": 27,
  "foodFieldsPerCountry": 9,
  "separateCombinedField": 1,
  "chartCategories": 8,
  "sources": [
    {
      "name": "Eurostat, Comparative price levels for food, beverages and tobacco — June 2026 workbook",
      "url": "https://ec.europa.eu/eurostat/statistics-explained/images/2/24/SE-Food_-_map_figure_tables-_June_2026.xlsx"
    },
    {
      "name": "Eurostat, comparative food price levels and methods (data 17 June 2026)",
      "url": "https://ec.europa.eu/eurostat/statistics-explained/index.php?title=Comparative_price_levels_for_food%2C_beverages_and_tobacco"
    },
    {
      "name": "Eurostat, purchasing power parity dataset prc_ppp_ind_1",
      "url": "https://ec.europa.eu/eurostat/databrowser/view/prc_ppp_ind_1/default/table?lang=en"
    },
    {
      "name": "Eurostat copyright and free reuse policy",
      "url": "https://ec.europa.eu/eurostat/help/copyright-notice"
    }
  ],
  "sourceWorkbookSHA256": "000e5804e618d5d141376fb029424b38a0ba2843c6ca4c64f4e3327d2ff751cb",
  "methods": [
    "Provisional 2025 price level indices from the Eurostat workbook accompanying its article with data from 17 June 2026. Frozen workbook retrieved 22 October 2026.",
    "Price level index = purchasing power parity divided by the annual average exchange rate, expressed relative to the EU average of 100. Each food group has its own EU benchmark. The EU benchmark is expenditure-weighted and corrected for price level differences.",
    "Food and eight published food groups come from Tables 2–3. The separate food-and-non-alcoholic-beverages field comes from Figure 1. Bulgaria food is 91.0; food and non-alcoholic beverages is 92.6. These aggregates are not interchangeable.",
    "The classification is COICOP 2018, used for these analytical categories from 2022. This is a 2025 cross-section and splices no earlier classification or time series.",
    "Extracted values are displayed to one decimal, matching the workbook number format 0.0. Percent difference from the category EU average is index minus 100. No missing cells or interpolated values occur in the selected EU27 fields.",
    "This is a comparison of price levels, not inflation, household affordability, food quantities, spending shares or the absolute cost of different categories. Close index differences do not establish statistically significant country rankings.",
    "The chart shows all eight published groups for Bulgaria. The CSV includes the same fields for all 27 EU countries; EFTA/candidate-country and EA21 aggregate rows are excluded from that CSV. The original workbook is retained unchanged in the source ZIP.",
    "Meplar selected and visualised these data. Eurostat is not responsible for Meplar’s presentation or conclusions. Statistical data reuse follows the linked Eurostat policy; no agency logo or third-party photograph is used."
  ],
  "reuseURL": "https://ec.europa.eu/eurostat/help/copyright-notice",
  "presentationDisclaimer": "Meplar selected and visualised these data. Eurostat is not responsible for Meplar’s presentation or conclusions."
}