State statistical and departmental sectoral reporting in forestry: problems and ways to optimize it
The adoption of informed management decisions cannot be without a comprehensive analysis of the information contained in the state statistical, departmental sectoral and management reporting, in the documents of current, strategic planning and others. An extensive database has been created in the forestry system of the Russian Federation. This is the state statistical, departmental sectoral and operational reporting, the state forest register, information on the results of forest management and state forest inventory, on the execution of delegated powers in the field of forest relations, on the formation and execution of budgets, the Unified State Automated Information System for Timber Accounting and Transactions with it. The total volume of indicators included in the information base annually exceeds 53.7 million. However, the above reporting does not allow to cover and describe the entire spectrum of forestry relations, in particular, economic indicators of the country’s forestry sector, including production volumes and export-import operations; activities of regional state budgetary and autonomous institutions, for example, on the amount of income they receive from entrepreneurial and other income-generating activities, without which it is impossible to judge the use and reproduction of forest resources and the effectiveness of the implementation of the delegated powers by the state authorities of the constituent entities of the Russian Federation in the field of forest relations. The lack of consistency and unified methodological approaches to the formation of reporting and calculating data, their duplication, fragmentation and discrepancies in various forms of reporting led to the fact that many indicators are not comparable with each other, and in some cases are unreliable. This makes it difficult to make an objective and reliable assessment of the performance of work on the protection, protection, reproduction of forests and afforestation, on the one hand, the financial support of the transferred powers in the field of forest relations, on the other, leads to unfounded conclusions about certain facts of economic activity, etc.