Comparability

Comparability - geographical

The forest accounts are compiled according to the guidelines for asset accounts for natural resources from the UN statistical standard System of Environmental-Economic Accounting. This ensures a high degree of comparability with the same type of accounts from other countries using this standard.

There is no EU regulation on forest accounts, but there is a voluntary data collection via the 'European Forest Accounts Questionnaire'. To the extent possible, the accounts are compiled according to the guidelines for this questionnaire which, however, includes several parts that are not part of the Danish forest accounts yet.

Comparability over time

The forest accounts are fully comparable across the published time series.

Coherence - cross domain

The forest accounts are comparable to the National Forest Inventory when it comes to the data on growing stock. The forest area in the forest accounts is not fully comparable to the forest area in the National Forest Inventory. This is because the forest accounts use the forest land as in the Danish Kyoto reporting, as it is calculated more consistently over time. Forest area in the Kyoto reporting and in the forest accounts is thus completely the same. As part of the Green National Accounts for Denmark, Statistics Denmark has also published land accounts including data on land covered with forest. In this account, the area with forest land is smaller, which is related to different sources as well as different definitions. In the Kyoto reporting, areas with Christmas trees, forest roads, auxiliary areas and temporarily unstocked land in the forests are included in forest land.

Coherence - internal

Full internal consistency has been ensured during the production of the accounts.