"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 32%","" "Confidence, businesses who have not permanently stopped trading, broken down by industry, weighted, UK, 5 to 18 October 2020","" "","" "Notes","1. Final weighted results, Wave 16 of the Office for National Statistics (ONS) Business Impact of Coronavirus (COVID-19) Survey; businesses that have not permanently stopped trading. 2. Bars may not sum to 100% because of rounding and percentages less than 1% being removed for disclosure purposes. 3. Other services and Mining and quarrying have been removed for presentational purposes, but their totals are included in “All Industries”. 4. Businesses were asked for their experiences for the references period 5 to 18 October 2020. However, for questions regarding confidence, businesses may respond from the point of completion of the questionnaire (19 October to 1 November 2020)." "Unit","%" "","" "Industry","Not sure ","High confidence","Moderate confidence ","No or low confidence" "Accommodation and food service activities","2.1","19.9","46.5","31.5" "Manufacturing","7.4","41.7","34.8","16.1" "Professional scientific and technical activities","1.1","51.9","35.6","11.3" "Information and communication","7.5","50.6","31.2","10.7" "Wholesale and retail trade; repair of motor vehicles and motorcycles","6.8","45.3","37.9","10.1" "Administrative and support service activities","11.1","44.4","35.1","9.4" "Arts entertainment and recreation","34.9","25.6","30.9","8.6" "Construction","7.6","45.8","38.8","7.8" "Transportation and storage","16.5","35.4","40.9","7.3" "Education","*","44.7","47.4","7" "Water supply sewerage waste management and remediation activities","0","19.8","79.9","*" "Human health and social work activities","21.5","50.8","26.7","*" "Real estate activities","*","58.2","41.1","0" "All industries","7.3","43.6","38","11.2"