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. </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>