LABOUR FORCE SURVEY, 1st Qu. 2002
13	Unemployed persons by sex and age (LFS). 1000 and per cent

Age. Year	Annual average		2000	2001				2002
	2000	2001	4th quarter	1st quarter	2nd quarter	3rd quarter	4th quarter	1st quarter
	1000
Total	81	84	71	87	84	86	78	97
16-24	32	33	27	31	36	33	30	36
25-54	44	46	39	47	43	48	44	53
55-74	5	6	5	8	6	5	5	7
Males	46	46	41	50	47	44	43	54
16-24	17	17	14	17	18	17	17	19
25-54	26	25	24	28	25	24	23	31
55-74	3	3	3	5	4	2	3	4
Females	35	38	31	37	37	43	35	42
16-24	15	15	13	15	18	16	13	17
25-54	18	20	15	19	18	24	20	22
55-74	2	2	2	3	2	2	2	3
	Per cent
Total	3.4	3.6	3.1	3.7	3.6	3.6	3.3	4.1
16-24	10.2	10.6	8.7	11.0	11.4	10.4	9.8	12.2
25-54	2.6	2.7	2.3	2.8	2.5	2.9	2.6	3.2
55-74	1.5	1.6	1.6	2.1	1.5	1.3	1.3	1.8
Males	3.6	3.7	3.2	4.0	3.7	3.5	3.5	4.3
16-24	9.9	10.8	8.4	11.0	11.1	10.4	10.8	12.5
25-54	2.9	2.8	2.6	3.2	2.8	2.7	2.6	3.5
55-74	1.8	1.7	1.7	2.3	1.8	1.2	1.5	1.8
Females	3.2	3.4	2.8	3.4	3.4	3.8	3.2	3.8
16-24	10.6	10.4	9.0	11.0	11.7	10.3	8.7	11.8
25-54	2.2	2.6	2.0	2.4	2.2	3.1	2.6	2.8
55-74	1.1	1.4	1.5	1.9	1.2	1.5	1.0	1.9

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