Table

Unemployed persons aged 15-74, by sex and age (LFS). 1 000 and per cent
	Annual average		3rd quarter 2011	4th quarter 2011	1st quarter 2012	2nd quarter 2012	3rd quarter 2012	4th quarter 2012
	2011	2012	3rd quarter 2011	4th quarter 2011	1st quarter 2012	2nd quarter 2012	3rd quarter 2012	4th quarter 2012
Unemployed
Both sexes
In total	86	86	85	80	86	89	82	86
15-24 years	32	33	32	27	29	36	33	33
25-54 years	49	47	48	47	50	48	43	49
55-74 years	6	6	5	6	7	5	7	5
Males
In total	48	51	42	47	55	56	45	50
15-24 years	17	19	17	15	19	22	16	20
25-54 years	27	28	23	29	31	30	25	26
55-74 years	3	4	2	3	4	4	4	3
Females
In total	38	35	43	33	31	33	38	36
15-24 years	14	13	15	12	10	14	17	13
25-54 years	21	19	25	18	19	17	18	22
55-74 years	3	2	3	3	2	1	2	2

Unemployed as per centof the labour force
Both sexes
In total	3.3	3.2	3.2	3.0	3.2	3.3	3.1	3.2
15-24 years	8.6	8.6	8.4	7.4	7.9	9.4	8.4	8.7
25-54 years	2.7	2.6	2.7	2.6	2.8	2.6	2.4	2.7
55-74 years	1.2	1.2	1.0	1.2	1.3	1.0	1.3	1.0
Males
In total	3.5	3.6	3.0	3.3	3.9	3.9	3.2	3.5
15-24 years	9.3	10.0	8.9	7.8	10.2	11.0	8.0	10.7
25-54 years	2.9	3.0	2.4	3.1	3.3	3.2	2.6	2.8
55-74 years	1.2	1.4	0.9	1.2	1.6	1.5	1.5	1.2
Females
In total	3.1	2.7	3.4	2.7	2.5	2.6	3.0	2.9
15-24 years	7.9	7.2	8.0	7.0	5.5	7.6	8.9	6.7
25-54 years	2.5	2.3	3.0	2.2	2.3	2.1	2.1	2.6
55-74 years	1.2	0.8	1.1	1.3	1.0	0.5	1.1	0.7