{
  "retrieved_on": "2026-09-23",
  "currency": "EUR",
  "wages": {
    "year": 2025,
    "measure": "Reported average net monthly employee wages; national methods differ",
    "kosovo": 636,
    "germany": 2761,
    "germany_source_revision": "2026-08-25",
    "sources": {
      "kosovo": "https://askapi.rks-gov.net/Custom/025496fc-bdb2-4c73-9e51-7ae54c2ba1a6.pdf",
      "germany": "https://www.destatis.de/DE/Themen/Wirtschaft/Volkswirtschaftliche-Gesamtrechnungen-Inlandsprodukt/Tabellen/inlandsprodukt-gesamtwirtschaft.html"
    }
  },
  "prices": {
    "kosovo_period": "2026-08",
    "germany_checked_on": "2026-09-23",
    "kosovo_method": "KAS sampled average retail prices, table 3, page 10",
    "germany_method": "ALDI Nord listed own-label prices; category comparisons, not identical SKUs",
    "items": [
      {
        "id": "milk",
        "unit": "1 L",
        "kosovo": 1.25,
        "germany": 0.95
      },
      {
        "id": "rice",
        "unit": "1 kg",
        "kosovo": 1.74,
        "germany": 1.39
      },
      {
        "id": "flour",
        "unit": "1 kg",
        "kosovo": 0.81,
        "germany": 0.59
      },
      {
        "id": "sugar",
        "unit": "1 kg",
        "kosovo": 1.09,
        "germany": 0.99
      }
    ],
    "sources": {
      "kosovo": "https://askapi.rks-gov.net/Custom/c64faecd-487b-4340-832d-5c024586a0c8.pdf",
      "germany_rice": "https://www.aldi-nord.de/produkt/parboiled-reis-1939.html",
      "germany_milk": "https://www.aldi-nord.de/sortiment/milchprodukte/milch-milchgetraenke.html",
      "germany_flour_sugar": "https://www.aldi-nord.de/sortiment/vorraete/mehl-zucker.html"
    }
  },
  "inflation": {
    "month": "2026-08",
    "comparison_month": "2025-08",
    "country": "Kosovo",
    "measure": "Reported year-on-year consumer price change, percent; food includes non-alcoholic beverages",
    "food": 2.6,
    "all_items": 7.3,
    "source": "https://askapi.rks-gov.net/Custom/c64faecd-487b-4340-832d-5c024586a0c8.pdf"
  },
  "comparison_limits": [
    "These four staple categories are an illustrative sample, not a representative cost-of-living basket.",
    "Retail price dates, sampling methods and product specifications differ.",
    "Wage shares divide 2026 prices by 2025 reported net monthly wages; national wage methods differ.",
    "Neither wage figure is asserted to be a median or a harmonised full-time-equivalent measure.",
    "Inflation figures are the published August 2026 year-on-year rates, not annual-average inflation or a comparison made by splicing index series."
  ],
  "derived": {
    "kosovo": {
      "basket_eur": "4.89",
      "share_of_monthly_net_wage_pct": "0.7688679245283018867924528302"
    },
    "germany": {
      "basket_eur": "3.92",
      "share_of_monthly_net_wage_pct": "0.1419775443679826149945671858"
    },
    "basket_wage_share_ratio_kosovo_to_germany": "5.415419233731228340392760878",
    "basket_price_ratio_kosovo_to_germany": "1.247448979591836734693877551",
    "monthly_net_wage_ratio_germany_to_kosovo": "4.341194968553459119496855346",
    "per_product": {
      "milk": {
        "kosovo_price_premium_pct": "31.57894736842105263157894740",
        "kosovo_price_difference_eur": "0.30"
      },
      "rice": {
        "kosovo_price_premium_pct": "25.17985611510791366906474820",
        "kosovo_price_difference_eur": "0.35"
      },
      "flour": {
        "kosovo_price_premium_pct": "37.28813559322033898305084750",
        "kosovo_price_difference_eur": "0.22"
      },
      "sugar": {
        "kosovo_price_premium_pct": "10.10101010101010101010101010",
        "kosovo_price_difference_eur": "0.10"
      }
    },
    "basket_kosovo_price_premium_pct": "24.74489795918367346938775510",
    "basket_kosovo_price_difference_eur": "0.97",
    "income_equivalent_german_basket_price_eur": "21.22844339622641509433962264",
    "equal_wage_share_kosovo_price_reduction_pct": "76.96486780152118797537124230",
    "formulas": {
      "price_premium_pct": "(Kosovo price / German price - 1) * 100; same formula for the basket",
      "price_difference_eur": "Kosovo price - German price; same formula for the basket",
      "wage_share_pct": "Basket price / reported monthly net wage * 100",
      "income_equivalent_german_basket_price_eur": "Kosovo basket price * German wage / Kosovo wage",
      "equal_wage_share_kosovo_price_reduction_pct": "(1 - Kosovo wage / German wage) * 100; reduction from a corresponding German price for equal wage shares"
    }
  }
}