"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 " "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"