Relevance

User Needs

Users are administrative bodies, researchers, NGOs, businesses, the educational sector and individuals - all with interests in forest, natural resources, interactions between environment and economy, natural capital, sustainability etc. In the context of the United Nations and other international organizations, there is a large focus on green national accounts.

User Satisfaction

The plans for the statistics are discussed with expert users in the expert committee for environmental-economic accounts and statistics, material in Danish only.

Data completeness rate

The forest accounts are produced following SEEA-CF, the UN statistical standard for environmental-economic accounts. Compared to a complete set of forest accounts, cf. SEEA-CF, the Danish forest accounts are lacking an account of the value of forest land. It has not (yet) been possible to produce these with sufficient validity based on available data. Furthermore, the physical accounts for the growing stock do not distinguish between tree resources available for wood supply and tree resources in undisturbed forests, which is due to a lack of (spatially explicit) source data.