INFORMATION AND ANALYSIS FOR SUSTAINABLE FOREST MANAGEMENT: LINKING NATIONAL AND INTERNATIONAL EFFORTS
IN SOUTH AND SOUTHEAST ASIA
DATA COLLECTION PROCESSES
WORKBOOK
Country: ..................
Participant: ..................
Overview of National Statistics Collection Processes
Agency with primary responsibility for collecting/collating forestry statistics:
Data collection/collation responsibilities: (check topics as appropriate):
Collect Collate not don't
collected know
National Forest Inventory
Separate Plantation Forest Inventory
Roundwood Removals
Production of Wood Products
Import/Export of Wood Products (volume)
Value statistics for imports/exports
Production/consumption of fuelwood/charcoal
Production of national wood supply forecasts
Forestry employment statistics
Forest Product Price statistics
Non-wood forest products
Others:
Remarks:
No. staff employed in collection/collation of statistics:
Other principal agencies involved in forestry statistics collection:
Agency(ies): Collects:
Description of forest inventories/surveys
Country: |
Reference year: |
Title of inventory: |
Type of inventory: |
Field / aerial photos / satellite images / ...
Brief summary of methodologies used
Reporting level |
Country coverage |
National / sub-national Complete / partial
Map output |
yes / no (also indicate format: analogue /digital)
Vegetation types included yes/no Additional information included yes/no
Natural forests Area by forest formation
Plantations Volume
All forests Biomass
Other wooded land Forest naturalness
Forest biodiversity
Forest ownership
Wood supply potential
Remarks:
Principal deficiencies and gaps in national forest inventory system:
Other forest resources and land-use data
National sub- not don't
natl. collected know
Extent of forest type in protected area
classification (e.g. IUCN)
Forest health surveys completed
Data compiled on annual forest fire damage
Data compiled on other annual forestland
clearing
Remarks:
Principal deficiencies and gaps in forest resources and land-use change:
Trees outside forests
Data surveyed for trees outside forests:
National Sub- not don't
natl. collected know
Inventory of trees outside forests
Wood production from trees outside forests
Studies of urban trees
Remarks:
Principal deficiencies and gaps in trees outside forests data collection:
Wood energy
Data available/surveyed for wood energy:
National Sub- not don't
natl. collected know
Woodfuel consumption
Sources/availability of woodfuels
Forests
Trees outside forests
Trees outside forests
Wood processing residues
Other (specify)
Charcoal Production
Agencies collecting woodfuels data:
Agency Data
Methodologies for estimating national consumption:
Methodologies for estimating fuelwood availability:
Principal deficiencies and gaps in Wood Energy data collection:
Non-wood forest products
Please tick the most important product(s) of your country's activities and specify if data are collected.
PLANTS: Live /decorative plants: Cut flower: Fodder, forage: Bamboo: Rattan: other vegetal fibres: Cork: Resins: Latex: Waxes: Tannins: Essential oils: Medicinal plants: Aromatic, non-edible plants: Plants for extraction of insecticides, fungicides: Other plant material: FOOD: Fruits, fresh, dried, preserved, prepared: Edible seeds/nuts: Culinary, aromatic herbs: Spices: Edible vegetable oils: Vegetable colourants and dyestuffs: gums: Mushrooms (fresh or preserved): ANIMAL PRODUCTS: Live animals Animal food products Trophees Bee wax and other insect wax Silk and silk products Lac and lac products Animal fats/oils Animal colourants Animal-based medicinal preparation Ecotourism Others not elsewhere specified |
Data collected |
Forest plantations
Data available/surveyed for forest plantations:
National Sub- not don't
national collected know
Total area of plantations
Total area by species
Total area by age-class
Total area by ownership
Annual new planting
Seedling production
Annual plantation harvest (volume)
Mortality rates
Survey of diseases and pests
Survey of aerial impacts of fire
Plantation woodflow forecasts
Woodflows predict sawlog/pulpwood diff.
Yield tables for major species
Surveys of non-forest species
Other plantation data collected:
Principal deficiencies and gaps in plantation information systems:
Wood supply potential
Data available/surveyed necessary to assess wood supply:
National Sub- not don't
natl. collected know
Natural forest area available for wood supply
legally protected areas
inaccessible areas (physical)
uneconomic areas (location or yields)
Information differentiated by forest type? YES/NO
Harvesting intensity by forest type
Cutting cycles by forest type
Recovered fibre production
Non-wood fibre production
Total annual harvest (volume)
Annual harvest by species (volume)
Forest impact assessments
Future wood supply modeling completed
Remarks:
Key deficiencies and gaps in assessing potential wood supplies:
Other data supporting sustainable forest management
(from Criteria & Indicators Processes)
Indicate whether data are collected in any form:
National Sub- not don't
natl. collected know
Monitoring of population levels of rare or
endangered forest-dependent species
Area of land with significant soil erosion
Area of forestland managed for protective functions
Monitoring of stream flow in forested
catchments
Monitoring of levels of forest organic matter
Monitoring of water quality in forest areas
(pH, dissolved oxygen, etc)
Preliminary work on estimating forest contribution
to carbon budgets
Area of forestland managed for tourism
Area of forest land used for subsistence or
by forest dwellers
Other data......................
Other data......................
Other data......................
Databases and referencing systems
Forestry data handling capacities: Yes/No
Formalised national Forest Information System
Centralised database for national forestry statistics
Integrated set of databases containing national forestry statistics
Discrete and unlinked set of databases
Other
GIS based forest-mapping system
Formal information sharing network between institutions
Data collection processes standardised between states/provinces
Means of information dissemination: National Other
Forestry Agency Agencies
Publications
Website
Other
Other
Remarks:
Key deficiencies and gaps in databases and referencing systems:
