Recent developments and future challenges in Metla’s forest statistics

Martti Aarne

Metla/Forest Statistics

e-mail: martti.aarne@metla.fi

Addressing six topics:

A little bit of repetition: Main duties and activities in Metla’s forest statistics

Wood flows from forests to forest industry products

General remarks & priority areas

Statistical Yearbook of Forestry 2013

New statistics on the prices and volumes of energy wood

Graphs illustrating roundwood markets

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Main duties and activitiesStatistical publications

Statistical Yearbook of ForestryForest Statistical BulletinsForest Finland in Brief

Maintenance and development of on-line statistical services

Metinfo Statistical ServiceMetinfo Forest Owners’ Service

International activitiesOfficial data supplier to international processes UNECE/FAO and Eurostat WG’s on forestry statisticsBaltic-Nordic Forest Statistics Group

• Specific research projects, such asWood consumption in small-sized housingWood consumption in small sawmills

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Wood flows from forests to forest industry products, 2012

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General remarks & priority areasMore resources required on the planning of stats services at the Institute less staff resources available on regular forest statistics New Statistics Act (Sep 2013): open (free-of-charge) data policy less financial resources

Priority areas (substance): statistics on the Finnish roundwood markets, energy wood markets in particular:-prices and purchased volumes of industrial roundwood-information system for wood energy markets: purchased volumes and prices of energy wood -harvested volumes of energy wood-statistics on silvicultural and forest improvement workPriority areas (distribution):-more emphasis on on-line channels-merger of the two present on-line services: 1 quarter/2014-new PX-Web -based software for distribution: 1 quarter/2014

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Finnish Statistical Yearbook of Forestry 2013Main chapters % of pages1. Forest resources 112. Forest biodiversity and health 73. Silviculture 124. Roundwood trade 65. Removals and transportation of roundwood 76. Multiple-use forestry 57. Forest sector labour force 88. Wood consumption 79. Energy 610. Forest industries 711. Foreign trade by forest industries 812. Forest sector in Finland’s national economy 813. International forest statistics 9

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New statistics on the prices and volumes of energy wood

Consumption of forest chips: 8.3 mill. m³ (2012), target: 13 mill. m³ (2020) more transparent information necessary to activate energy wood markets

Introduction of more standardized measurement methods and units better pre-conditions for statistics

Specifications of new statistics:

-coverage: energy wood purchased from private forest owners (raw material for forest chips)

-four energy wood assortments: (i) stumps and roots, (ii) tops and branches, (iii) unpruned stems, and (iv) unpruned stems

-both roadside and stumpage prices, plus corresponding volumes

-regional breakdown: 7 price regions

-start: 1st quarter of 2014

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Stumpage prices by felling method

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Annual variation in roundwood trade volumes

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Removals of roundwood (1)

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Removals of roundwood (2)

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Thank you