Instructions for querying results from NFI plots

A total of 94,860 tables and maps with NFI results are currently available for selection in the interactive results query system.

All tables follow the structure shown on the right.

The ‘target variable’ is the topic being analysed (e.g. forest area, growing stock, number of stems); the ‘classification unit’ classifies the data according to a certain characteristic (e.g. ownership, with the classes public and private), and the ‘reference unit’ (region) is the selected geographic division (e.g. production regions, cantons).

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The maps are based on the tables, with each table row visualised separately.

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You can use keywords of your choice to start a results query (‘search’). Alternatively, you can select the target variable from a list (‘topics’), specify the geographic division (‘regions’), or select the NFI (‘inventories’) for which you would like to see results.

• query using search
• query by topic (target variable)
• query by region (reference unit)
• query by inventory

Current version of data: NFI4 (2009–2017)

All results, including those from previous inventories, are recalculated using the methods currently in use to ensure the comparability of data from different inventories. Results published in previous reports therefore may not be identical to the latest values posted online.