LABOUR FORCE SURVEY, 3rd Qu. 2008
13	Unemployed persons aged 15-74 by sex and age (LFS). 1 000 and per cent

Age. Year	Annual average		2007			2008
	2006	2007	2nd quarter	3rd quarter	4th quarter	1st quarter	2nd quarter	3rd quarter
	1 000
Total	84	63	69	63	54	65	72	66
15-24	29	26	31	25	19	27	33	28
25-54	50	33	33	35	30	33	34	34
55-74	5	4	4	4	5	6	4	3
Males	45	34	37	33	31	37	40	36
15-24	15	14	18	13	11	15	18	16
25-54	27	17	15	17	17	18	19	19
55-74	3	3	3	3	3	4	3	2
Females	39	29	32	30	24	29	31	29
15-24	14	12	13	11	8	12	15	13
25-54	23	16	18	18	14	15	15	15
55-74	2	2	1	1	2	2	2	1
	Per cent
Total	3.4	2.5	2.7	2.5	2.1	2.5	2.8	2.5
15-24	8.6	7.3	8.8	6.7	5.4	7.2	8.4	7.3
25-54	3.0	1.9	1.9	2.0	1.8	1.9	2.0	1.9
55-74	1.2	1.0	1.0	0.9	1.1	1.2	1.0	0.7
Males	3.5	2.6	2.8	2.5	2.3	2.7	2.9	2.6
15-24	8.6	7.9	10.1	7.2	6.3	8.1	9.1	7.8
25-54	3.1	1.9	1.7	1.9	1.8	2.0	2.1	2.0
55-74	1.3	1.1	1.2	1.1	1.1	1.4	1.1	0.8
Females	3.4	2.5	2.7	2.5	2.0	2.4	2.6	2.4
15-24	8.7	6.6	7.4	6.3	4.5	6.4	7.7	6.7
25-54	2.8	2.0	2.2	2.2	1.7	1.8	1.8	1.9
55-74	1.1	0.8	0.7	0.5	1.0	1.0	0.8	0.6

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