LABOUR FORCE SURVEY, 3rd Qu. 2002
13	Unemployed persons by sex and age (LFS). 1000 and per cent

Age. Year	Annual average		2001			2002
	2000	2001	2nd quarter	3rd quarter	4th quarter	1st quarter	2nd quarter	3rd quarter
	1000
Total	81	84	84	86	78	97	95	91
16-24	32	33	36	33	30	36	40	35
25-54	44	46	43	48	44	53	49	52
55-74	5	6	6	5	5	7	5	4
Males	46	46	47	44	43	54	51	50
16-24	17	17	18	17	17	19	22	19
25-54	26	25	25	24	23	31	27	28
55-74	3	3	4	2	3	4	2	2
Females	35	38	37	43	35	42	44	41
16-24	15	15	18	16	13	17	19	16
25-54	18	20	18	24	20	22	22	24
55-74	2	2	2	2	2	3	3	2
	Per cent
Total	3.4	3.6	3.6	3.6	3.3	4.1	4.0	3.8
16-24	10.2	10.6	11.4	10.4	9.8	12.2	12.7	10.6
25-54	2.6	2.7	2.5	2.9	2.6	3.2	2.9	3.1
55-74	1.5	1.6	1.5	1.3	1.3	1.8	1.3	1.0
Males	3.6	3.7	3.7	3.5	3.5	4.3	4.0	3.9
16-24	9.9	10.8	11.1	10.4	10.8	12.5	13.4	11.4
25-54	2.9	2.8	2.8	2.7	2.6	3.5	3.0	3.2
55-74	1.8	1.7	1.8	1.2	1.5	1.8	1.2	1.0
Females	3.2	3.4	3.4	3.8	3.2	3.8	3.9	3.7
16-24	10.6	10.4	11.7	10.3	8.7	11.8	11.9	9.8
25-54	2.2	2.6	2.2	3.1	2.6	2.8	2.8	3.0
55-74	1.1	1.4	1.2	1.5	1.0	1.9	1.5	1.0

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