"Figure 2: The percentage of businesses currently trading has fallen to the levels seen in Wave 11 of BICS (27 July to 9 August 2020)","" "Percentage of businesses, current trading status, broken down by wave, weighted, UK, 1 June to 1 November 2020","" "","" "Notes","1. Final weighted results, Wave 7 to Wave 17 of the Office for National Statistics (ONS) Businesses Impact of Coronavirus (COVID-19) Survey (BICS). 2. For presentational purposes, currently trading categories and paused or temporarily closed categories have been combined. 3. Waves may not sum to 100% because of rounding, percentages less than 1% being removed for disclosure purposes, and those permanently ceased trading being removed. 4. Businesses were asked for their current trading status and so responses will be from the point of completion of the questionnaire." "Unit","%" "","" "Wave","Currently trading","Temporarily closed or paused trading" "Wave 7","65.9","33.4" "Wave 8","71.6","26.3" "Wave 9","78.5","19.3" "Wave 10","82.4","15.9" "Wave 11","81.5","16.3" "Wave 12","82.7","15" "Wave 13","83.9","13.2" "Wave 14","86.3","12.4" "Wave 15","86.1","11.4" "Wave 16","84.6","11.4" "Wave 17","81.6","16.5"