LABOUR FORCE SURVEY, 4th Qu. 2007
5	Persons in the labour force aged 15-74, by age and sex. 1 000 and as per cent of all in each group

	Annual average		2006		2007
	2006	2007	3rd quarter	4th quarter	1st quarter	2nd quarter	3rd quarter	4th quarter
	1 000
Total	2 446	2 507	2 464	2 450	2 463	2 503	2 522	2 538
15-19	131	139	141	126	130	140	145	142
20-24	205	213	212	200	202	215	220	214
25-29	247	249	249	247	245	248	251	252
30-39	606	608	604	604	607	606	607	610
40-54	836	854	834	838	843	850	855	867
55-66	398	416	400	407	407	415	417	426
67-74	22	27	24	27	28	28	27	27
Males	1 296	1 323	1 305	1 298	1 300	1 322	1 332	1 340
15-19	64	68	68	62	62	70	72	68
20-24	108	110	111	104	107	111	112	109
25-29	130	132	131	131	129	131	133	133
30-39	320	321	321	319	319	320	323	323
40-54	439	450	439	441	443	447	451	458
55-66	220	226	219	224	221	225	225	231
67-74	14	17	15	17	18	17	16	17
Females	1 150	1 183	1 159	1 152	1 163	1 181	1 190	1 199
15-19	68	71	74	64	68	70	74	74
20-24	97	103	101	96	95	105	108	105
25-29	117	117	117	116	116	117	118	119
30-39	286	286	283	286	288	286	284	288
40-54	396	404	395	397	400	403	404	408
55-66	178	191	181	183	186	190	192	194
67-74	8	10	8	10	10	10	10	10
	Per cent
Total	72.0	72.8	72.4	71.7	71.9	72.8	73.1	73.2
15-19	43.2	44.8	46.3	40.9	42.3	45.3	46.6	44.9
20-24	74.6	75.6	77.0	72.1	72.0	76.8	78.3	75.4
25-29	85.7	85.4	86.2	85.5	84.9	85.3	85.8	85.6
30-39	87.9	88.7	87.8	87.9	88.5	88.5	88.6	89.1
40-54	86.8	87.3	86.5	86.6	86.7	87.0	87.3	88.1
55-66	63.5	65.5	63.3	64.4	64.4	65.5	65.6	66.3
67-74	9.0	10.5	9.5	10.7	10.9	10.6	10.2	10.4
Males	75.6	76.0	76.0	75.3	75.2	76.1	76.4	76.3
15-19	40.9	42.6	43.2	39.4	39.5	44.2	44.7	42.0
20-24	77.2	76.4	79.1	74.0	74.7	77.9	78.0	75.1
25-29	89.5	88.8	90.3	89.8	89.1	89.2	88.9	88.0
30-39	91.8	92.3	92.1	91.6	91.4	92.0	93.0	92.8
40-54	90.0	90.5	89.8	89.8	89.9	90.1	90.4	91.6
55-66	69.4	70.3	68.9	70.0	69.6	70.3	70.2	71.1
67-74	12.0	14.0	12.9	14.3	15.0	13.8	13.2	14.0
Females	68.3	69.5	68.8	68.1	68.6	69.5	69.8	70.0
15-19	45.6	47.0	49.6	42.6	45.2	46.4	48.6	48.0
20-24	71.8	74.8	74.8	70.2	69.2	75.7	78.6	75.8
25-29	81.8	81.9	82.2	81.1	80.6	81.4	82.5	83.0
30-39	83.8	84.9	83.4	84.1	85.4	84.9	84.1	85.3
40-54	83.5	84.0	83.1	83.3	83.5	83.8	84.0	84.5
55-66	57.5	60.5	57.7	58.7	59.3	60.7	60.8	61.4
67-74	6.2	7.4	6.4	7.3	7.2	7.6	7.5	7.2

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