LABOUR FORCE SURVEY, 1st Qu. 2002
5	Persons in the labour force by age and sex. 1000 and as per cent of all in each group

	Annual average		2000	2001				2002
	2000	2001	4th quarter	1st quarter	2nd quarter	3rd quarter	4th quarter	1st quarter
	1000
Total	2 350	2 361	2 333	2 349	2 373	2 371	2 353	2 373
16-19	110	107	113	91	110	116	110	101
20-24	203	200	199	194	207	203	196	197
25-29	277	267	278	260	267	271	269	249
30-39	606	612	606	609	610	614	616	615
40-54	820	814	814	821	815	812	809	817
55-66	316	341	309	350	344	336	332	367
67-74	18	21	14	23	20	19	20	27
Males	1 258	1 260	1 248	1 258	1 269	1 263	1 249	1 258
16-19	57	54	60	46	55	59	58	48
20-24	111	106	107	107	111	106	100	107
25-29	147	144	148	140	144	146	144	132
30-39	324	327	324	326	325	328	328	327
40-54	435	430	432	434	431	429	428	430
55-66	173	185	169	191	188	182	178	197
67-74	12	14	10	14	14	13	14	16
Females	1 092	1 102	1 085	1 091	1 104	1 108	1 103	1 115
16-19	54	52	53	44	55	58	53	53
20-24	93	94	92	88	96	97	96	90
25-29	129	123	130	121	123	125	124	117
30-39	281	286	282	283	286	286	289	288
40-54	385	384	382	387	383	384	381	387
55-66	143	156	141	159	156	154	154	170
67-74	7	7	5	8	6	5	7	10
	Per cent
Total	73.4	73.5	72.9	73.0	73.8	73.8	73.3	73.4
16-19	52.0	50.2	53.0	42.7	51.8	54.7	51.7	47.1
20-24	74.2	73.5	72.2	71.5	76.1	74.6	71.7	72.2
25-29	85.0	84.8	85.1	82.9	85.0	86.1	85.3	82.3
30-39	88.4	88.7	88.5	88.3	88.4	88.9	89.2	88.5
40-54	87.7	87.4	87.2	88.0	87.4	87.2	86.9	87.6
55-66	62.9	64.4	62.0	66.2	64.8	63.5	63.0	66.0
67-74	6.9	7.8	5.4	8.5	7.8	7.2	7.8	10.2
Males	77.9	77.7	77.4	77.5	78.3	78.0	77.2	77.1
16-19	52.0	49.9	54.8	42.2	50.8	54.1	52.8	43.3
20-24	79.2	76.7	76.5	76.9	80.4	76.9	72.7	76.7
25-29	88.9	89.9	89.1	87.8	90.3	91.5	90.0	86.2
30-39	93.1	92.9	92.9	92.9	92.5	93.2	93.0	92.6
40-54	91.0	90.8	90.7	91.5	91.0	90.5	90.4	90.8
55-66	69.2	69.5	68.3	71.7	70.4	68.6	67.4	70.6
67-74	9.3	11.4	7.6	11.6	11.7	10.9	11.2	13.3
Females	68.8	69.2	68.3	68.4	69.3	69.6	69.3	69.6
16-19	52.0	50.6	51.0	43.3	52.9	55.3	50.6	51.1
20-24	69.0	70.1	67.9	65.9	71.5	72.3	70.7	67.5
25-29	80.9	79.6	81.0	77.8	79.5	80.5	80.4	78.3
30-39	83.5	84.3	83.8	83.5	84.2	84.4	85.3	84.3
40-54	84.2	83.8	83.5	84.5	83.7	83.8	83.3	84.2
55-66	56.7	59.2	55.8	60.5	59.1	58.4	58.6	61.3
67-74	4.8	4.8	3.5	5.8	4.3	3.9	4.9	7.4

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