LABOUR FORCE SURVEY, 4th Qu. 2001
13	Unemployed persons by sex and age (LFS). 1000 and per cent

Age. Year	Annual average		2000		2001
	2000	2001	3rd quarter	4th quarter	1st quarter	2nd quarter	3rd quarter	4th quarter
	1000
Total	81	84	82	71	87	84	86	78
16-24	32	33	36	27	31	36	33	30
25-54	44	46	42	39	47	43	48	44
55-74	5	6	4	5	8	6	5	5
Males	46	46	40	41	50	47	44	43
16-24	17	17	17	14	17	18	17	17
25-54	26	25	20	24	28	25	24	23
55-74	3	3	3	3	5	4	2	3
Females	35	38	42	31	37	37	43	35
16-24	15	15	19	13	15	18	16	13
25-54	18	20	22	15	19	18	24	20
55-74	2	2	1	2	3	2	2	2
	Per cent
Total	3.4	3.6	3.5	3.1	3.7	3.6	3.6	3.3
16-24	10.2	10.6	10.8	8.7	11.0	11.4	10.4	9.8
25-54	2.6	2.7	2.5	2.3	2.8	2.5	2.9	2.6
55-74	1.5	1.6	1.2	1.6	2.1	1.5	1.3	1.3
Males	3.6	3.7	3.2	3.2	4.0	3.7	3.5	3.5
16-24	9.9	10.8	9.6	8.4	11.0	11.1	10.4	10.8
25-54	2.9	2.8	2.2	2.6	3.2	2.8	2.7	2.6
55-74	1.8	1.7	1.7	1.7	2.3	1.8	1.2	1.5
Females	3.2	3.4	3.8	2.8	3.4	3.4	3.8	3.2
16-24	10.6	10.4	12.0	9.0	11.0	11.7	10.3	8.7
25-54	2.2	2.6	2.8	2.0	2.4	2.2	3.1	2.6
55-74	1.1	1.4	0.7	1.5	1.9	1.2	1.5	1.0

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