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Releases/ publications - Employment

Forestry Statistics 2009 provides the most up-to-date statistics on employment, using figures from the Annual Business Inquiry and the Forest Employment Survey 1998/9.

Forestry Facts & Figures provides a brief summary of the ABI results.  A Welsh language version of Forestry Facts & Figures is also available.

Forest Employment Survey

Similar surveys have been carried out at intervals of around 5 years from the 1980s to 1998/9, but the survey has since been discontinued.

Forest Employment Survey 1998/9 (published January 2001) gives the numbers of full-time equivalent jobs in 1998/9 in British forestry and primary wood processing of British timber. A regional breakdown is also available.

Forest Employment Survey 1998/9
Forest Employment Survey 1993/4
Forest Employment Survey 1988/9
Forest Employment Survey 1986