INFLUENCE OF EMPLOYMENT TRENDS IN THE CROATIAN WOOD INDUSTRY ON THE NUMBER OF STUDENTS OF WOOD TECHNOLOGY SINCE 2010

This article presents an analysis of the current situation in the Croatian woodworking sector on the basis of established values of labour resources in Wood processing and Furniture manufacturing as well as anticipating the influence of employment trends on the number of enrolled students of Wood Technology since 2010. According to Croatian Standard Classification of Occupations (NKD 2007), for sectors Wood processing (C16) and Furniture manufacturing (C31), the data of the number and composition of persons in paid employment in legal entities are gathered from Croatian Bureau of Statistics. The data of the number of students are gathered from Information System of Higher Education Institutions (ISVU) for undergraduate and graduate students of various Wood Technology Study Programmes since introduction of the Bologna process in university teaching at the Faculty of Forestry in Zagreb. The dynamic economic analysis of time series data was performed and time series models for predicting the future trends for analyzed variables were built.