Coniferous Timber Standing Sales Price Index for Great Britain, 1985-2018

Coniferous Standing Sales Price Index data for years ending March 1985 to September 2018. The dataset provides underlying figures for volumes, total prices, and average prices by average tree size in Great Britain. It is published by the Government Digital Service as supporting data for the National Statistics release Timber Price Indices.

Use Cases

• Modeling timber price trends over time based on the provided price index series.
• Analyzing the relationship between tree size and average price based on the underlying figures.
• Forecasting forestry sector economic performance based on historical volume and price data.
• Benchmarking regional timber market prices based on the Great Britain coverage.

Strengths

• Covers a long time series from March 1985 to September 2018.
• Provides multiple underlying metrics: price index, volumes, total prices, and average prices.
• Data is linked to an official National Statistics release.

Limitations

• Column-level documentation is absent; field semantics must be inferred after download.
• Last update date is unknown; freshness unverified.
• Row count is unknown, which may limit suitability assessment.

Provenance

Source

Government Digital Service

Collection Method

Likely collected through official forestry sales and reporting mechanisms.

Time Range

March 1985 to September 2018

Freshness

Data is current to September 2018; update frequency is unknown.

Geography

Great Britain