"Figure 8: The accommodation and food service activities industry had the highest percentage of businesses with no or low confidence that their businesses would survive the next three months, at 34%","" "Confidence, businesses who have not permanently stopped trading, broken down by industry, weighted, UK, 19 October to 1 November 2020","" "","" "Notes","1. Final weighted results, Wave 17 of the Office for National Statistics (ONS) Business Impact of Coronavirus (COVID-19) Survey; businesses that have not permanently stopped trading. 2. For presentational purposes, no confidence and low confidence categories have been combined. 3. Bars may not sum to 100% because of rounding and percentages less than 1% being removed for disclosure purposes. 4. Other services and Mining and quarrying have been removed for disclosure purposes, but their totals are included in “All Industries”. 5. Businesses were asked for their experiences for the references period 19 October to 1 November 2020. However, for questions regarding confidence, businesses may respond from the point of completion of the questionnaire (2 to 15 November 2020)." "Unit","%" "","" "Industry","Not sure","High confidence","Moderate confidence","No or low confidence" "Accommodation and food service activities","9.9","20.5","35.8","33.8" "Administrative and support service activities","7.8","33.8","40","18.3" "Education","4.6","44.9","34.3","16.2" "Wholesale and retail trade; repair of motor vehicles and motorcycles","6.3","34.4","43.7","15.6" "Information and communication","4.7","50.2","30.1","15" "Professional scientific and technical activities","5.1","46.6","36.2","12.2" "Arts entertainment and recreation","21.7","39.9","27.9","10.6" "Transportation and storage","18.1","33.6","38.3","10" "Construction","5.6","36.6","48.7","9.2" "Manufacturing","5.6","42.8","44.4","7.2" "Real estate activities","3.3","51.1","39.6","6" "Human health and social work activities","9.3","47.8","40","2.9" "Water supply; sewerage waste management and remediation activities","*","88.4","11.3","*" "All industries","7.3","38.6","39.8","14.2"