Australian forest and wood products statistics: September and December quarters 2019

Source: ABARES

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Introduction

Australian forest and wood product statistics (AFWPS) is a key publication for stakeholders in the forest and wood products industry. It provides a comprehensive dataset that can be used to inform policy makers and industry representatives on the current state of the industry that may in turn be used to inform decision makers on important future trends and drivers of change.

ABARES has a long standing and highly respected relationship with stakeholders in the forest and wood products industry. This has allowed ABARES to become a trusted repository of confidential information, including the volume and value of logs harvest and processed as well as detailed information on the current commercial plantation estate and public and private native forests. This means ABARES aggregated industry level statistics are reliable, complete and consistent, providing robust datasets for decision making.

ABARES Australian forest and wood products statistics (AFWPS) is a compendium of data on key indicators of activity in the Australian forest and wood products sector, such as:

• commercial plantation areas by type and jurisdiction
• volume and value of logs harvested by type and jurisdiction
• production and trade of wood products
• socio-economic variables relevant to the forest sector

Scope and coverage

The AFWPS datasets include a number of long time series including as far back as 1939 for commercial plantations, as well as comprehensive coverage of current period data for the entire industry.

The data is represented at the state, national and international scale for forestry imports and exports.

For the gross value of production (GVP) value and volume data, the Australian Capital Territory is data is combined with New South Wales. Northern Territory data is combined with Western Australia for confidentiality.

The list of regions covered are outlined in Table 1 below for domestic datasets and Table 2 for international datasets. The majority of the datasets are not modelled or estimated by ABARES, except for gross roundwood equivalent consumption and sawnwood production. In some instances it may have been necessary to estimate incomplete data. Where this estimation has occurred, this will be reported in the notes section of the published dataset. The notes section also provides a description of each dataset and its limitations

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Table 1 List of Domestic regions

Table 2 List of import and export countries

Table 3 List of ABS forestry data

Download the datasets technical report and dataset

Australian forest and wood products statistics datasets technical report – PDF [932 KB]

Australian forest and wood products statistics datasets technical report – MS Word [1.73 MB]

Australian forest and wood products dataset – XLSX [25.0 MB]

Australian forest and wood products: log harvest 2018-19 infographic – PDF [3.5 MB]

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