This endpoint returns all product categories from Passport that your subscription has access to within a given context. It will also reveal the hierarchical structure of these categories.

URI	https://api.euromonitor.com/catalog/category
Supported verbs	GET
Required headers	Ocp-Apim-Subscription-Key, Accept, Authorization
Supported formats	JSON, XML, CSV
Parameters
CategoryContext	Context in which you want categories returned: Statistics or Analysis. Always use “Statistics” for Statistics API purposes.

A successful response body will have the following structure in JSON format:

[
		  {
				"id": 0,
				"name": "string",
				"parentId": 0,
				"parentName": "string",
				"level": 0,
				"industryCode": "string",
				"industryName": "string",
				"industryOrder": 0
		  }
		]

It is an array of Category objects, each with the following members:

id	The category ID
name	The category name
parentId	The ID of the parent category. This member references the "id" member of a different record. For root nodes, this member will have a value of null
parentName	The name associated with the parent category. For root nodes, this member will have a value of null
level	The node level of the category in the hierarchy tree. For root nodes, this member will have a value of 0, for child nodes 1, for grandchildren 2 etc.
industryCode	The code for the industry this category object is associated with
industryName	The name of the industry this category is associated with
industryOrder	Denotes the order of this category object within the related industry

Note that the category data is all Passport-specific and subject to change.

Tissue and Hygiene
	└ Away-from-Home Tissue and Hygiene
	|       └ Away-from-Home Hygiene
	└ Retail Tissue and Hygiene

Will be represented by the Categories endpoint like this:

[
	{
		  "id": 1,
		  "name": "Tissue and Hygiene",
		  "parentId": null,
		  "parentName": null,
		  "level": 0,
		  "industryCode": "DPP",
		  "industryName": "Tissue and Hygiene",
		  "industryOrder": 0
	},
	{
		  "id": 10,
		  "name": "Away-from-Home Tissue and Hygiene",
		  "parentId": 1,
		  "parentName": "Tissue and Hygiene",
		  "level": 1,
		  "industryCode": "DPP",
		  "industryName": "Tissue and Hygiene",
		  "industryOrder": 1
	},
	{
		  "id": 101,
		  "name": "Away-from-Home Hygiene",
		  "parentId": 10,
		  "parentName": "Away-from-Home Tissue and Hygiene",
		  "level": 2,
		  "industryCode": "DPP",
		  "industryName": "Tissue and Hygiene",
		  "industryOrder": 2
	},
	{
		  "id": 11,
		  "name": "Retail Tissue and Hygiene",
		  "parentId": 1,
		  "parentName": "Tissue and Hygiene",
		  "level": 1,
		  "industryCode": "DPP",
		  "industryName": "Tissue and Hygiene",
		  "industryOrder": 3
	}
]

Note the root node with null parents, the levels, and the relationships between parents and children.