Vol 3 Land Resource Inventory Report - Department of Environment ...

FRA 2010 – Country Report, Fiji
13.3 Analysis and processing of national data
13.3.1 Calibration
13.3.2 Estimation and forecasting
National Class 1990 2000 2005 2010
Forestry 268 198 163 142
Logging 1998 1558 1338 1206
Total 303 232 1491 1399
*Note: Data on 1990 and 2000 extracted from FRA2005.
*Data for 2005 average from 2003-2007.
Growth in employment from 2000 to 2005 is due to the harvesting of mahogany plantations
Forestry – The decrease in staffing is due to the compulsory retirement at the age of 55 years
Logging – More jobs on logging as a result of mahogany harvesting and is still increasing based on pending
applications from companies that wish to harvest and process mahogany including the new softwood
processing plant that will come on line soon.
13.3.3 Reclassification into FRA 2010 categories
13.4 Data for Table T13
*No data available.
FRA 2010 Category
Employment in primary production of goods
...of which paid employment
...of which self-employment
Employment in management of protected areas
37
Employment (1000 years FTE)
1990 2000 2005