Economic performance of forest-reliant census subdivisions between 1981 and 1991

This article assesses the economic performance of Canadian forest reliant c ensus subdivisions (referred to as FRCs for the purposes of this paper) ove r the period 1981 to 1991. FRCs performed reasonably well over the 10 year period. The average annual rate of growth in base income was 1.7% per year. However, the performance of FRCs is quite varied. Growth of non-forest sec tors was the major contributor to growth in FRCs indicating a general tende ncy for these CSDs to diversify and become less forest reliant over time. G enerally, the FRCs that performed well over the period were the ones that i nitially had one or more of the following characteristics: larger FRCs, FRC s that were initially less forest reliant, FRCs with a higher paper and all ied component in the forest sector and FRCs with lower initial wage rates.