Topic outline

This course introduces the definitions related to forest and wild products and describes the various methods and issues relevant to the forestry modules.

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This is one of four courses in the e-Learning on the ‘National socioeconomic surveys in forestry’. It is primarily intended for people who are involved in data collection, analysis and reporting in organizations such as: National statistical offices, government agencies, donors, non-governmental organizations, forestry departments and research organizations.

  • Forestry-related definitions and categories of forest product and income
  • Some key data collection methods and issues

The course consists of 3 sections:

  • Section 1 Definitions, products and income categorisation
  • Section 2 Data collection methods
  • Section 3 Some data collection issues

The online version of this course runs on the latest versions of the major browsers, such as Chrome, Safari, Edge and Firefox.

The downloadable version only runs on Windows PC’s and no additional software is needed.

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