This report presents the results of the 2007 survey of business health in the forestry and wood industries. The survey was first carried out in 2000 and again in 2004 and it is planned to continue to run it every 3-4 years.

This survey has a similar scope to both the 2000 and the 2004 surveys. It covers private sector forestry businesses from nurseries to the manufacture of pulp and paper, including woodland establishment contracting and biomass supply. The results are disaggregated to sub-sector and national levels.

Since 2005, improvements have been made to the survey methodology. Therefore, some of the results from 2007 cannot be compared directly with the results from the 2005 survey.