"Figure 1: CJRS official statistics and BICS estimates on proportions of the workforce on furlough are very closely matched","" "Proportion of workforce on furlough, broken down by wave, UK, 23 March 2020 to 7 February 2021 ","" "","" "Notes","1. Final unweighted results, Wave 2 to Wave 6, and final weighted results, Wave 7 to Wave 24, of the Office for National Statistics’ (ONS’) Business Insights and Conditions Survey (BICS); businesses not permanently ceased trading. 2. Weighted estimates are available from Wave 7 onwards only. The sample redesign in Wave 7 improved our coverage for the small-sized businesses, allowing for weighted results to be truly reflective of all businesses. 3. Businesses were asked for their experiences for the reference period. However, for questions regarding the last two weeks, businesses may respond from the point of completion of the questionnaire. 4. CJRS January estimates are provisional and subject to revision. 5. Only industries included in the BICS samples are included in the “CJRS Statistics: BICS Industries only” series, but all industries are included in “CJRS Statistics: All industries” series. 6. An “employment” in the HMRC CJRS Official Statistics is defined as anyone who meets the scheme criteria set out within the published guidance, and data comes from the whole population of HMRC CJRS claims (those applied) and PAYE Real Time Information systems (RTIs). 7. The CJRS official statistic's proportion furloughed is an average of the number of employments furloughed over the two-week BICS reference period, divided by the total eligible employments. Further information on the BICS reference periods can be found in Table 6. 8. The dates used in the plot are for the middle of each BICS Wave." "Unit","%" "","" "Date","BICS (unweighted)","BICS (weighted)","CJRS Statistics: BICS industries only","CJRS Statistics: All industries" "29/03/2020","15.4","","25.2","23.1" "12/04/2020","28.4","","31.4","28.8" "26/04/2020","31.3","","31.5","29" "10/05/2020","28.1","","31.6","29.1" "24/05/2020","29.8","","31","28.5" "07/06/2020","29.6","29.6","27.4","25.2" "21/06/2020","","24.6","26.3","24.2" "05/07/2020","","22.3","21.7","19.9" "19/07/2020","","19.2","20.4","18.7" "02/08/2020","","15.5","16.7","15.3" "16/08/2020","","13.7","14.7","13.6" "30/08/2020","","11.9","12.7","11.7" "13/09/2020","","9.4","10.6","9.8" "27/09/2020","","9.3","10","9.2" "11/10/2020","","7.7","9.1","8.3" "25/10/2020","","9","9.2","8.5" "08/11/2020","","15.1","14.5","13.3" "22/11/2020","","15.5","14.8","13.5" "06/12/2020","","10.8","14.3","13.1" "20/12/2020","","13.7","14.5","13.3" "03/01/2021","","16.9","16.6","15.2" "17/01/2021","","18.3","17.6","16.2" "31/01/2021","","19.9","",""