Forest products statistical information systems of EU and EFTA / / by Philip Wardle [and three others].

• Superior document: European Forest Institute research report ; 16
• Author: European Forest Institute.
• VerfasserIn: Wardle, P. A.,
• TeilnehmendeR: European Forest Institute.
• Place / Publishing House: Leiden, The Netherlands ;, Boston : : Brill,, [2003]; ©2003
• Year of Publication: 2003
• Language: English
• Series: Research report (European Forest Institute) ; 16.
• Physical Description: 1 online resource.

This book is the only in its kind to review the commodity coding, definitions and methodology applying to the collection of forest products production and trade statistics. The analysis - both qualitative as quantitative - contains valuable information for anybody who want to gain more insight in the methodology behind the figures. Recommendations are made for improving the data collection framework. Special attention has been given to the comparability of commodity coding systems, comparability of terms and definitions at the national and international levels, conversion factors to convert volume and weight, double counting and the coverage of production and trade of tropical timber and its products. This relates to the efforts of the ECE, FAO, EUROSTAT and ITTO who jointly collect such statistics from their member states, with the aim to streamlining the collection process and to reducing the burden for their statistical correspondents. Data on commercial trade of all commodities, among which forest products, is also collected by UN - COMTRADE and Eurostat - COMEXT. The possible use of their data for reporting to the joint questionnaire is used.

Table of Contents

Intro -- Title Page -- Copyright Page -- Table of Contents -- Acknowledgements -- Executive Summary -- List of Acronyms -- 1. Introduction -- 1.1 European Forestry Information and Communication System -- 1.2 Collection of forest product statistics -- 1.3 The lntersecretariat Working Group on Forest Sector Statistics -- 1.4 The Joint FAO/ECE/Eurostat/ITTO Forest Sector Questionnaire (JQ) -- 2. International Information - Comparability Study -- 2.1 Aim and methodology -- 2.2 Responsibility, authority, external relation and function of the international institutions -- 2.3 Sources of forest products data, including secondary sources -- 2.4 Method of collecting data -- 2.5 Product classification, definitions and coding -- 2.6 Standards for value and quantity units including conversion factors -- 2.7 Validation and treatment of missing data and the effect of confidentiality -- 2.8 Special issue of treatment of tropical wood -- 2. 9 Incidence of double counting -- 3. National Information - Comparability Study -- 3.1 Introduction -- 3.2 Responsibility and authority, dissemination -- 3.3 Sources of data, including secondary sources -- 3.4 Method of collecting data -- 3.5 Specification, definitions and coding -- 3.6 Value and quantity units, including conversion factors -- 3.7 Validation -- 3.8 Special issue of treatment of tropical wood -- 3. 9 Incidence of double counting -- 3.10 Confidentiality and Triangularity -- 3.11 Timing and other concems -- 3.12 Broad conclusions -- 4. Quantitative Approach - International Conversion Factors -- Comparison of Production and Trade Statistics 1998/1999 -- Tropical Products -- 4.1 Introduction -- 4.2 International conversion factors -- 4.3 Comparison of production and Trade Statistics 1998/1999.

4.4 Reporting production and trade in tropical products and trade in primary wood products produced from imported tropical logs -- 4.5 Index of Addendum Tables -- 5. Conclusions and Recommendations -- 5.1 Information strategy for international forest products production and trade statistics -- 5.2 Summary of lssues, Conclusions and Recommendations -- References.