Reflections of active forest owners to the public-private forestry support system in Estonia

Figures & Tables

No	Forest management service	Importance	Performance	Performance gap	t-value	p-value	Number of respondents	% of satisfied respondents^*
33	Organizing forest regeneration activities	4.52	3.78	−0.74	−9.96	<0.001	181	42.5
34	Advisory services for forest owners	4.46	4.08	−0.38	−8.27	<0.001	450	60.2
35	Financial support measures (support measures for forest management, counselling, etc.)	4.68	4.06	−0.62	−13.09	<0.001	463	50.5
36	Overall developing of private forestry	4.43	3.54	−0.89	−11.95	<0.001	172	37.8
37	Organizing joint timber sales	4.43	3.56	−0.87	−7.74	<0.001	127	45.7
38	Organizing harvesting activities	4.21	3.72	−0.49	−5.65	<0.001	191	53.4
39	Organizing auctions on harvesting rights	4.08	3.46	−0.62	−5.35	<0.001	110	52.7
40	Organizing property auctions	3.70	3.33	−0.37	−2.13	0.037	61	62.3
41	Information and training days	4.34	4.07	−0.27	−5.35	<0.001	271	69.0
42	Assistance in applying for support measures	4.55	4.24	−0.31	−6.79	<0.001	410	65.6
43	Performing forest inventories and compiling management plans	4.53	4.28	−0.25	−5.40	<0.001	400	67.2
44	Publishing information booklets	4.24	3.84	−0.40	−6.30	<0.001	254	55.9
45	Interest representation in policy-making	4.61	3.31	−1.30	−14.61	<0.001	186	29.0
46	Forest certification	3.86	3.45	−0.41	−4.65	<0.001	96	61.5

	Mean	4.33	3.77	−0.56				53.8

No	Forest management service	Age	Sex	Private persons	Legal persons	Self-employed persons	Years	Area	FOA member
33	Organizing forest regeneration activities				0.21^** /				/ 0.20^**
34	Advisory services for forest owners	/ 0.12^*	0.23^*** /	0.13^** / 0.12^*	−0.14^** /	−0.10^* / −0.09^*	−0.13^** /	−0.11^* /	0.13^ / 0.14^
35	Financial support measures (support measures for forest management, counselling, etc.)						−0.09^* /		0.20^*** /
36	Overall developing of private forestry								0.16^* /
37	Organizing joint timber sales								/ 0.24^**
38	Organizing harvesting activities
39	Organizing auctions on harvesting rights			0.20^* /	−0.34^*** /			−0.23^* /
40	Organizing property auctions							−0.27^* /
41	Information and training days								0.23^* / 0.28^*
42	Assistance in applying for support measures	/ 0.12^*	/ 0.10^*		−0.11^* /				0.16^*** /
43	Performing forest inventories and compiling management plans								0.12^* / 0.11^*
44	Publishing information booklets								/ 0.15^*
45	Interest representation in policy-making	−0.19^** /			/ −0.17^*				0.17^* /
46	Forest certification					−0.25^* /

Problems	Occurrences	Share of occurrences (%)
Specific services	47	17.0
Financial support	40	14.5
Complicated system, bureaucracy	39	14.1
Capacity and strength of F OA	33	12.0
National policies	33	12.0
Difficult to access or obtain information	32	11.6
Lack of trust, cheating	29	10.5
Other/passive	23	8.3

Sum	276	100.0

No	Informational item	Importance	Performance	Performance gap	t-value	p-value	Number of respondents	% of satisfied respondents^*
23	Local forest owner associations	3.89	3.74	−0.15	−3.12	0.002	483	72.9
24	Services provided by FOAs	3.94	3.57	−0.37	−7.11	<0.001	468	61.8
25	Forest certification	3.26	2.92	−0.34	−5.16	<0.001	413	60.5
26	Profile and contacts of consultants	4.16	3.86	−0.30	−5.86	<0.001	492	67.5
27	Private forestry support measures	4.51	3.78	−0.73	−14.99	<0.001	514	48.2
28	Forest management service companies information, contacts and prices	3.95	3.25	−0.70	−10.54	<0.001	464	50.2
29	Principles and means of timber sales and harvesting rights	4.10	3.34	−0.76	−12.20	<0.001	472	48.1
30	Activities of the PFC	3.87	3.60	−0.27	−5.54	<0.001	469	66.7
31	Activities of the EPFU	3.43	3.07	−0.36	−6.25	<0.001	428	66.4

	Mean	3.90	3.46	−0.44				60.3

No	Informational item	Age	Sex	Private persons	Legal persons	Self-employed persons	Years	Area	Distance	FOA member
23	Local forest owner associations		/ −0.16^***	/ −0.11^*		/ 0.13^**		0.14^ / 0.25^*		0.45^* / 0.52^*
24	Services provided by FOAs	/ 0.10^*	/ −0.13^**	/ −0.12^*		/ 0.10^*		/ 0.19^***		0.39^* / 0.41^*
25	Forest certification		0.13^** /			−0.10^* /
26	Profile and contacts of consultants	0.12^ / 0.17^*	0.13^** /	0.10^* /	−0.17^*** /	/ 0.10^*		/ 0.09^*		0.13^ / 0.17^*
27	Private forestry support measures				0.10^* /		0.09^* /	0.17^*** /		0.12^** / 0.09^*
28	Forest management service companies information, contacts and prices			/ −0.11^*		/ 0.10^*		/ 0.11^*	0.12^* /	0.19^*** / 0.10^*
29	Principles and means of timber sales and harvesting rights			/ −0.16^***	/ 0.10^*	/ 0.13^**		0.11^* / 0.21^***		0.14^ / 0.20^*
30	Activities of the PFC
31	Activities of the EPFU									0.14^** / 0.12^*

Services	Occurrences	Share of occurrences (%)
Capacity to plan and organize forest management	123	22.2
Advice and extension	116	21.0
Support measures	106	19.2
Information	73	13.2
Other	65	11.8
Joint timber/harvesting rights sales	41	7.4
Interest representation	29	5.2

Sum	553	100.0