Forestry Statistics 2011 provides the most up-to-date statistics on employment, using figures from the Annual Business Survey and the Forest Employment Survey 1998/9.
Forestry Facts & Figures 2011 (available in EXCEL and PDF formats) provides a brief summary of the ABS results.
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.
