"Figure 5: UK businesses purchase more off-diagonal products than on-diagonal",""
"Summary of the proportion of purchases (%) as on- or off-diagonal products within each industry group
UK, 2017",""
"",""
"Notes","This excludes industry groups wholesale, retail and pension funding for the following reasons:
- wholesale and retail: you cannot buy the wholesale or retail product – since that is going to be an intangible mark-up on products sold by wholesalers or retailers
- pension funding: pensions are not a cost of production – they are an employer’s social contribution – so spending on pensions is not a purchase; it is part of compensation of employees, which is not included in intermediate consumption
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"Unit","%"
"",""
"","Off-diagonal","On-diagonal"
"Construction","68.5","31.5"
"Production","72.5","27.5"
"Agriculture","72.7","27.3"
"Information and communication","77.0","23.0"
"Real estate","84.6","15.4"
"Professional and support activities","85.6","14.4"
"Government health and education","90.4","9.6"
"Distribution transport
hotels and restaurants","90.7","9.3"
"Finance and insurance","91.1","8.9"
"Other services","94.2","5.8"