Release

Coronavirus and the economic impacts on UK: 5 November 2020

Released: 5 November 2020 9:30am
Next release: 19 November 2020

Summary

New experimental data on the UK economy detailing the impact on businesses from the coronavirus (COVID-19).

Data is from the Business Impact of Coronavirus Survey; a two-weekly survey designed to estimate the impact over the previous two weeks and the expectations for the following two weeks.

Publications

  • Coronavirus and the economic impacts on the UK: 5 November 2020

    The indicators and analysis presented in this bulletin are based on responses from the voluntary fortnightly business survey, which captures businesses’ responses on how their turnover, workforce prices, trade and business resilience have been affected. These data relate to the period 5 to 18 October 2020.

Data

  • Business Impact of COVID-19 Survey (BICS) results

    This page is no longer updated. It has been superseded by the Business insights and impacts on the UK economy dataset page (see link in Notices). It contains comprehensive weighted datasets for Wave 7 onwards. All future BICS datasets will be available there. The datasets on this page include mainly unweighted responses from the voluntary fortnightly business survey, which captures businesses’ responses on how their turnover, workforce prices, trade and business resilience have been affected in the two-week reference period, up to Wave 17.

Contact details

Name

Jon Gough

Email

bics@ons.gov.uk

Phone

+44 (0)1633 456720