Qeema — Open Affordability Index
A live, child-weighted affordability index for crisis economies. Every read endpoint is unauthenticated: the data being open is the point. Reads are rate limited per IP; bulk export more tightly still. Reading the numbers honestly. Every price-bearing object carries `is_imputed`. An imputed value is an estimate produced by a model, never a measurement, and is never silently mixed with observed data. Snapshots also carry `coverage`, `imputed_share` and `comparable` — `comparable` is false until every basket item has a price, and a consumer ranking locations must check it, because a partially-observed basket costs less simply because part of it is missing. `cost.usd` is null when no exchange rate within the configured staleness horizon was available. That is a deliberate refusal to invent a conversion, not missing data.
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Countries this deployment publishes
The basket being costed, with its weights
Weights are a judgement rather than a fact, so they are published: a consumer cannot disagree with the basket composition without seeing it.
Official and parallel exchange rates
Both rates and the premium between them. The gap is itself a headline indicator of economic stress.
Latest snapshot per location
The most recent snapshot for each location individually, so a location that has not reported today is still returned with its last known figure rather than dropped.
Time series for one location
One snapshot with its full item breakdown
Coverage and freshness per location
Published so a consumer can judge the data before using it.
Bulk CSV export, streamed
Rate limited more tightly than ordinary reads. Carries the data licence in an X-Qeema-License header, because a CSV passed on loses the context the API page carried.
Report a price
The only write route. Unauthenticated because requiring a signup would suppress the participation the platform runs on. A repeated client_idempotency_key returns 200 with status "duplicate" rather than creating a second row.
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