LABOUR FORCE SURVEY, 4th Qu. 2002
5	Persons in the labour force by age and sex. 1000 and as per cent of all in each group

	Annual average		2001		2002
	2001	2002	3rd quarter	4th quarter	1st quarter	2nd quarter	3rd quarter	4th quarter
	1000
Total	2 361	2 378	2 371	2 353	2 373	2 398	2 389	2 354
16-19	107	112	116	110	101	113	120	112
20-24	200	203	203	196	197	206	209	199
25-29	267	255	271	269	249	256	258	257
30-39	612	616	614	616	615	617	617	613
40-54	814	813	812	809	817	818	811	805
55-66	341	359	336	332	367	364	355	349
67-74	21	22	19	20	27	24	19	19
Males	1 260	1 262	1 263	1 249	1 258	1 271	1 268	1 251
16-19	54	55	59	58	48	55	60	55
20-24	106	107	106	100	107	108	109	105
25-29	144	136	146	144	132	137	139	135
30-39	327	330	328	328	327	332	332	330
40-54	430	428	429	428	430	430	427	426
55-66	185	193	182	178	197	195	191	190
67-74	14	12	13	14	16	14	11	9
Females	1 102	1 116	1 108	1 103	1 115	1 127	1 121	1 103
16-19	52	57	58	53	53	57	61	57
20-24	94	96	97	96	90	99	100	94
25-29	123	119	125	124	117	119	119	121
30-39	286	285	286	289	288	285	285	283
40-54	384	384	384	381	387	388	384	379
55-66	156	165	154	154	170	169	164	159
67-74	7	10	5	7	10	11	9	9
	Per cent
Total	73.5	73.5	73.8	73.3	73.4	74.1	73.9	72.8
16-19	50.2	51.9	54.7	51.7	47.1	52.6	56.1	52.0
20-24	73.5	74.2	74.6	71.7	72.2	75.6	76.4	72.6
25-29	84.8	84.0	86.1	85.3	82.3	84.4	84.9	84.3
30-39	88.7	88.5	88.9	89.2	88.5	88.7	88.6	88.0
40-54	87.4	87.1	87.2	86.9	87.6	87.6	86.9	86.3
55-66	64.4	64.6	63.5	63.0	66.0	65.5	63.8	63.0
67-74	7.8	8.6	7.2	7.8	10.2	9.4	7.5	7.3
Males	77.7	77.4	78.0	77.2	77.1	77.9	77.8	76.8
16-19	49.9	49.4	54.1	52.8	43.3	50.3	53.8	50.3
20-24	76.7	77.0	76.9	72.7	76.7	77.5	78.3	75.5
25-29	89.9	88.5	91.5	90.0	86.2	89.6	90.8	87.6
30-39	92.9	93.0	93.2	93.0	92.6	93.4	93.3	92.7
40-54	90.8	90.4	90.5	90.4	90.8	90.6	90.1	90.0
55-66	69.5	69.5	68.6	67.4	70.6	70.2	68.6	68.4
67-74	11.4	10.3	10.9	11.2	13.3	11.2	8.8	7.8
Females	69.2	69.6	69.6	69.3	69.6	70.3	69.9	68.8
16-19	50.6	54.6	55.3	50.6	51.1	55.0	58.4	53.8
20-24	70.1	71.3	72.3	70.7	67.5	73.6	74.4	69.6
25-29	79.6	79.3	80.5	80.4	78.3	79.2	78.9	80.8
30-39	84.3	83.7	84.4	85.3	84.3	83.9	83.7	83.1
40-54	83.8	83.7	83.8	83.3	84.2	84.5	83.5	82.5
55-66	59.2	59.6	58.4	58.6	61.3	60.8	59.0	57.5
67-74	4.8	7.1	3.9	4.9	7.4	7.8	6.3	6.9

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