Köpare av skogsfastigheter i Småland år 2000-2001 : en undersökning hur den privata ägarstrukturen ser ut i Sverige

Sammanfattning: The aim of this thesis is to study the private owner structure in the Swedish forestry. This will be done with both a investigation of forest owners in Småland the year 2000 and 2001 and also a statistic research for the private forest owners in Sweden right now and over the years. In Sweden more than half of the total forest area is owned by private forest owner, witch is approximately 22 600 000 ha. Private forestry includes the owner categories private person, ordinary partnership and the estate of deceased persons. The main part of the private forestry is to be found in Norrland but also in the rest of Sweden private forestry constitute a large part of the forestry area. Forest statistics shows that since 1951 the share of private forestry owners is quite the same. In the beginning of the 1970 the share was as low as 46% of the total forestry area. That is approximately 5% less than the year 2000. This is according to the fact that state owned forestry areas decreased at expense for stock companies. In 1994 the government sold out their forest to two state companies, Assi Domän AB and Sveaskog. These two companies counts as stock companies and that is why the share of forest owned by stock companies has increased. The investigation was based on an inquiry. A questionnaire were send to 74 forest owners, 53 (71.6%) of them answered through telephone interviews. Most of the people that were a part of the investigated group were men. The investigation has a central point in the reason why the person chose to invest in forest property. The main reason was the forest owners´ interest in forest and its nature. Other reasons were hunting and fishing interests and that they thought that the bought of the forest property was a good capital investment. Other things the investigation showed were that the most of the interviewed persons had good financial position and many of them own forest properties before this investment.