资源简介:
<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 first edition of this study includes Waves 1 to 4 only covering the following reference periods:</div><div><br></div><div>Wave 1: 9th March to 22nd March 2020; </div><div>Wave 2: 23rd March to 5th April 2020; </div><div>Wave 3: 6th April to 19th April 2020; </div><div>Wave 4: 20th April to 3rd May 2020.<br><br><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">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">BICS Survey Questions Articles</a> webpage.</div></div>