Forest Products Tasmania - Quarterly

NAME OF ORGANISATION
Australian Bureau of Statistics (ABS)

OVERVIEW
Quarterly collection of log inputs to sawmills and wood chip mills and output (sawn timber and woodchips). Native forest and plantation forest input are collected. Softwood and hardwood species collected as separate data items

PURPOSE
Measure harvest from native and plantation forest and product output and enable assessment of health of forestry sector

SCOPE
all producing sawmill and woodchipping locations with logs inputs of 3000 cm plus, annually. Collection covers all woodchippers.

DATA DETAIL

Conceptual framework
Activity based collection ie units engaged in timber sawing, woodchipping

Main outputs
logs delivered m3 and sawn and peeled timber produced, woodchips produced into softwood and hardwood for timber production Timber production in cubic metres, woodchip production in tonnes

Classifications
type of log input (softwood or hardwood), source (Crown or private land)

Other concepts (summary)
not applicable

GEOGRAPHIC DETAIL
Tasmania

Comments and/or Other Regions
Tasmania

COLLECTION FREQUENCY
Quarterly

Frequency comments


COLLECTION HISTORY
Dates from 1970's Last data collected Sep 2004. 2003/04 data published in Tasmanian Statistical Indicators : ( ABS Cat No. 1303.6), last issue June 2004

DATA AVAILABILITY
Yes