Coniferous Standing Timber Price Index for Great Britain

Forestry Commission data provides the Coniferous Standing Sales Price Index and underlying figures for volumes, total prices, and average prices by tree size. The dataset supports the official National Statistics release Timber Price Indices. It covers a long time series, with different versions extending from 1985 to 2020.

Use Cases

• Analyzing long-term price trends for coniferous standing timber based on the price index time series.
• Correlating timber prices with underlying volumes and average tree size data.
• Informing forestry policy and investment decisions using official national statistics.
• Benchmarking timber sale prices across Great Britain over multiple decades.

Strengths

• Covers a long time series, with data spanning from 1985 to at least 2020.
• Provides underlying figures for volumes, total prices, and average prices, not just the index.
• Serves as supporting data for official National Statistics releases, indicating a degree of authority.

Limitations

• Column names and exact data structure are not specified in the provided metadata.
• Multiple platform entries with different end dates (e.g., March 2020, September 2019) create ambiguity about the definitive temporal coverage.
• Key metadata such as row count, file size, and license information is consistently missing.

Provenance

Source

Forestry Commission

Collection Method

Likely collected from surveys or administrative records of timber sales.

Time Range

1985 to 2020 (conflicting end dates across sources: March 2020, September 2019, September 2018).

Freshness

Last updated dates on the platform range from 2026-06-29 22:06:55 to 2026-06-29 22:07:12, but these are likely platform metadata timestamps, not data publication dates.

Geography

Great Britain