The lack of a correlation between firm performance and investment expenditures shows the unique nature of the shock and the randomness of its impact across enterprises. [...] The first two columns give some background statistics on the groups: the first column reports the number of firms in each group out of the total of 1,503 firms in the survey; and the second column reports the average employment which shows a fair degree of variation across sectors. [...] The figures in the table contrast the period between mid-March and October 2020 to the level of activity in 2019. [...] For the self-employed, we find that the resources of the firm and the owner are more intermingled with the owner supplementing the internal resources of the firm. [...] We also include the response to a question on whether the firm had intended to invest in 2020 prior to the the outbreak of the pandemic.
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