The Covid-19 pandemic and lockdown have highlighted the need for real-time data to understand the spread of the disease, identify vulnerable groups and design policies to mitigate the health and economic fallout of the crisis. While several new efforts to collect individual data are being made (Adams et al., 2020), data on businesses is more limited. A relatively under-utilised source [?]

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7 May 2020

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LSE Business Review

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https://blogs.lse.ac.uk/businessreview/2020/05/07/how-is-covid-19-affecting-businesses-in-the-uk/

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