Dataset(s): Business insights and impact on the UK economy confidence intervals

Confidence intervals for weighted estimates from the voluntary fortnightly Business Insights and Conditions Survey (BICS) about financial performance, workforce, prices, trade, and business resilience. These are official statistics in development.

Contact:
Business Insights and Conditions Survey (BICS) team

Release date:
2 July 2026

Next release:
23 July 2026

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Statistics are most often revised for 1 of 2 reasons:

  1. For certain statistics initial estimates are released with the expectation that these may be revised and updated as further data becomes available.
  2. Revisions may also be made when methods or systems are changed.

These types of planned revisions should not be confused with errors in released statistics, which are genuine mistakes. Such mistakes occur rarely and, when they do happen, corrections are made in a timely manner, announced and clearly explained to users in line with the Code of Practice for Official Statistics (Principle 2, Practice 7).

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Correction See correction
In the published tables for Waves 154 and 156 of the BICS, the columns for questions regarding what proportion of businesses' gas and electricity prices were fixed or hedged, and what proportion of total purchases were accounted for by energy, were incorrectly labelled. This resulted in proportions for response options being incorrectly allocated to different responses than the actual results from the survey. This was caused by human error during setup of the BICS analytical pipeline. This error has now been resolved and the data columns are now correctly labelled in both datasets. We apologise for the error and any inconvenience this has caused.
23 June 2026 15:30