"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, 2018 ","" "","" "Notes","This excludes industry groups wholesale and retail, and pension funding for the following reasons: 1. 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 2. 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","69.7","30.3" "Production","71.9","28.1" "Agriculture","71.7","28.3" "Information and Communication","79.2","20.8" "Real Estate","87","13" "Professional and Support Activities","85.6","14.4" "Government Health and Education","92","8" "Distribution transport hotels and restaurants","89.8","10.2" "Finance and insurance","89.1","10.9" "Other services","90.7","9.3"