{
  "dataset": "Cebu Staple Food Prices (PSA Cebu price survey) — wholesale ₱/kg, with the retail gap stated",
  "_disclosure": "WHOLESALE, NOT RETAIL. Every price in this dataset is a PSA Cebu WHOLESALE average (April 2026), not a retail shelf price. PSA-7 regional/Cebu RETAIL ₱/kg for recent months could not be retrieved from a primary source (PSA OpenSTAT is a JS shell and psa.gov.ph / rsso07.psa.gov.ph return HTTP 403), and the only regional-retail aggregators found are banned and were not used. Do not read these as retail prices, and do not derive a retail figure from them.",
  "slug": "cebu-staple-food-prices",
  "url": "https://liveinph.com/data/cebu-staple-food-prices",
  "asOf": "2026-04",
  "temporalCoverage": "2026-04",
  "spatialCoverage": "Cebu, Philippines",
  "source": "https://www.sunstar.com.ph/cebu/rice-corn-prices-surge-in-april-26",
  "sourceLabel": "PSA Cebu price survey, via SunStar Cebu",
  "methodology": "https://liveinph.com/methodology",
  "license": "https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/",
  "attribution": "LiveInPH — https://liveinph.com",
  "limitations": [
    "Wholesale averages, not retail shelf prices — a household pays more than these figures at the palengke or supermarket.",
    "Cebu-specific, from the PSA Cebu price survey; not a full regional basket.",
    "One reference month on record; a longitudinal series begins at the next PSA survey seeded."
  ],
  "columns": [
    "period",
    "reference_month",
    "item",
    "unit",
    "price_php",
    "source"
  ],
  "rows": [
    {
      "period": "2026-04",
      "reference_month": "April 2026",
      "item": "Rice, regular-milled",
      "unit": "PHP/kg (wholesale avg)",
      "price_php": 48.68,
      "source": "https://www.sunstar.com.ph/cebu/rice-corn-prices-surge-in-april-26"
    },
    {
      "period": "2026-04",
      "reference_month": "April 2026",
      "item": "White corn grits",
      "unit": "PHP/kg (wholesale avg)",
      "price_php": 63.48,
      "source": "https://www.sunstar.com.ph/cebu/rice-corn-prices-surge-in-april-26"
    }
  ]
}