Forest accounts record and present data on forest resources and economic activity in the forestry and logging industry in a way that is fully compatible with the data reported under the ESA 2010. Forest accounts provide complementary information and use concepts adapted to the particular nature of forests and of the forestry and logging industry.

This metadata file covers data on forest resources from the following sources:

Economic aggregates include output, intermediate consumption, gross value added, fixed capital consumption, gross fixed capital formation and different measures of income of forestry and logging. The data are in current prices and use the concepts and definitions of National Accounts. Employment data includes labour input in annual working units (AWU), they are harmonized to 1 AWU =1800 working hours a year (i.e. they may differ from nationally published data depending on the conversion factor).

Employment data from Eurostat's Labour Force Survey (LFS) are presented as well, covering estimates of the number of employees in forestry and logging, the manufacture of wood and products of wood and cork, the manufacture of paper and paper products, and the manufacture of furniture. There are two separate tables because of the change in the EU's classification of economic activities from NACE Rev. 1.1 to NACE Rev. 2 in 2008.

The EFA questionnaire can be accessed from Eurostat's methodology page on forestry .