"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","1. 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","%" "","" "","On-diagonal","Off-diagonal" "Construction","30.4","69.6" "Agriculture","27.5","72.5" "Production","27.2","72.8" "Information and Communication","22.1","77.9" "Professional and Support Activities","15.9","84.1" "Real Estate","13.9","86.1" "Other services","10.0","90.0" "Distribution transport hotels and restaurants","9.9","90.1" "Finance and insurance","8.2","91.8" "Government Health and Education","8.1","91.9"