Business Impact of COVID-19 Survey, 2020: Secure Access

<div>The <span style="font-style: italic;">Business Impact of COVID-19 Survey, 2020: Secure Access</span> is a voluntary fortnightly survey of businesses developed to deliver timely indicators to help understand the impact of the coronavirus pandemic (COVID-19). The survey captures businesses responses on how their turnover, workforce, prices, trade and business resilience have been affected in the two week reference period.<br class="Apple-interchange-newline"></div><div><br></div><div>The data should be treated with caution as results reflect the characteristics of those who responded and not necessarily the wider business population. Comparison of the proportions of businesses' trading status between waves should be treated with caution because of the voluntary nature of the survey, the difference in response rates and dependency on those businesses that only responded in particular waves. These data should not be used in place of official statistics. The survey was designed to give an indication of the impact of the coronavirus on businesses and a timelier estimate than other surveys.</div><div><br></div><div>The second edition of this study includes Waves 1 to 10 covering the reference period 9 March 2020 to 26 July 2020.&nbsp;</div><div><br></div><div><div>The latest publications from the survey can be found on the <a href="https://www.ons.gov.uk/businessindustryandtrade/business/businessservices/bulletins/coronavirusandtheeconomicimpactsontheuk/previousReleases" target="_blank" style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">Coronavirus and the Economic Impacts on the UK Statistical Bulletins</a> webpage and all the questions asked in each wave of the survey can be found on the <a href="https://www.ons.gov.uk/peoplepopulationandcommunity/healthandsocialcare/conditionsanddiseases/articles/businessimpactofcovid19surveyquestions/previousReleases" target="_blank" style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">BICS Survey Questions Articles</a> webpage.<br></div><div><br><div><span style="font-style: italic;">Linking to other business studies</span></div><div>These data contain IDBR reference numbers. These are anonymous but unique reference numbers assigned to business organisations. Their inclusion allows researchers to combine different business survey sources together. Researchers may consider applying for other business data to assist their research.</div><br>For the second edition (September 2020) data for Waves 5 to 10 have been added and data for Wave 4 has been updated. The documentation has also been updated to cover all 10 waves.<br></div></div>

《2020年新冠疫情对企业的影响调查：安全访问》（Business Impact of COVID-19 Survey, 2020: Secure Access）是一项自愿参与的双周企业调查，旨在生成及时的指标以助力理解冠状病毒大流行（COVID-19）所带来的影响。该调查收集了企业针对其在两周参考周期内，营业额、劳动力、定价、贸易状况及业务韧性所受影响的反馈。

需谨慎解读本数据集的结果，因其仅能反映受访企业的特征，未必能够代表更广泛的企业整体群体。由于本调查为自愿参与性质、各波次响应率存在差异，且仅依赖于特定波次参与的企业，因此对不同波次间企业贸易状态占比的比较需持审慎态度。本数据集不可替代官方统计数据。本调查的设计初衷是展现新冠病毒对企业的影响，并提供相较于其他调查更为及时的估算结果。

本研究第二版涵盖第1至10波次，覆盖的参考周期为2020年3月9日至2020年7月26日。

该调查的最新公开成果可查阅《新冠疫情与英国经济影响统计简报》（Coronavirus and the Economic Impacts on the UK Statistical Bulletins）网页，各波次调查所使用的全部问卷可查阅《BICS调查问题文集》（BICS Survey Questions Articles）网页。其中BICS为《新冠疫情对企业的影响调查》（Business Impact of COVID-19 Survey）的缩写。

关联其他企业研究
本数据集包含部门间企业登记册（Inter-Departmental Business Register, IDBR）参考编号，此类编号为匿名且唯一的企业组织标识，其纳入使得研究人员可将不同企业调查数据源进行合并。研究人员可考虑申请其他企业数据以辅助其研究工作。

针对2020年9月发布的第二版，新增了第5至10波次的数据，并更新了第4波次的数据。配套文档也已同步更新，以覆盖全部10个波次。