As the study focuswas on the community participation in forest management
and its impact on household income and poverty levels, a large
data set was required. This paper uses data collected by the National
Statistical Bureau under the Bhutan Living Standard Survey 2012 (BLSS
2012); this is a nationally representative and comprehensive survey covering
the entire country. The National Statistical Bureau of Bhutan (NSB)
collected and compiled the BLSS 2012 using multi-stage stratified
random sampling techniques, covering about 9998 households.