"Figure 3: The impact of price rises in the construction industry is being split between firms absorbing the costs and passing increases onto the customer","" "Impact of price rises, construction businesses not permanently stopped trading, weighted by count, UK, 7 March 2022 to 21 August 2022","" "","" "Notes","1. Dates in the chart refer to the midpoint of the corresponding wave. 2. Final weighted results of Wave 52, 54, 55, 57, 59, 60 and 63 of the Office for National Statistics' (ONS') Business Insights and Conditions Survey (BICS). 3. The question asked on BICS is: ""In which of the following ways, if any, has your business been affected by price rises?"" 4. Construction output estimates are for Great Britain, whereas BICS estimates are for the UK construction sector, with other notable differences including sample size and response rates to the surveys." "Unit","%" "","" "Period (dates relate to mid point of waves)","Had to absorb costs","Had to change suppliers","Had to pass on price increases to customers","The business has not been affected by price rises","Not sure " "13/03/2022","33.6","13.2","29.4","28.5","12.9" "10/04/2022","35.8","9.4","35.5","18.9","16.5" "24/04/2022","39.8","13.4","40.1","17.6","11.2" "22/05/2022","37.3","18.6","34.1","14.5","22.9" "19/06/2022","42.2","16.1","31.9","19","15.1" "03/07/2022","39.6","16","28.6","16.4","18.2" "14/08/2022","38","21.6","32","23.9","11.1"