Coniferous Standing Timber Price Index for Great Britain, 1985-2019

Coniferous Standing Sales Price Index tracks timber market trends from years ending March 1985 to September 2019. The dataset includes underlying figures for volumes, total prices, and average prices by tree size in Great Britain. It provides supporting data for the official National Statistics release Timber Price Indices.

Use Cases

• Modeling long-term timber price trends based on the price index time series.
• Analyzing the relationship between tree size and average price based on the underlying figures.
• Forecasting forestry sector economic performance based on volume and total price data.

Strengths

• Time series spans over 34 years, from March 1985 to September 2019.
• Includes multiple underlying economic variables: volumes, total prices, and average prices.
• Data is produced as supporting material for official National Statistics.

Limitations

• Row count and column-level documentation are unknown; field semantics must be inferred after download.
• Last update date is unknown; freshness unverified.

Provenance

Source

Government Digital Service

Collection Method

Likely compiled from sales data and surveys as part of official statistics.

Time Range

Years ending March 1985 to September 2019

Freshness

Data is current to September 2019; update frequency is unknown.

Geography

Great Britain