LABOUR FORCE SURVEY, 2nd Qu. 2003
5	Persons in the labour force by age and sex. 1 000 and as per cent of all in each group

	Annual average		2002				2003
	2001	2002	1st quarter	2nd quarter	3rd quarter	4th quarter	1st quarter	2nd quarter
	1000
Total	2 361	2 378	2 373	2 398	2 389	2 354	2 366	2 386
16-19	107	112	101	113	120	112	94	107
20-24	200	203	197	206	209	199	196	209
25-29	267	255	249	256	258	257	239	244
30-39	612	616	615	617	617	613	608	609
40-54	814	813	817	818	811	805	816	815
55-66	341	359	367	364	355	349	388	376
67-74	21	22	27	24	19	19	25	25
Males	1 260	1 262	1 258	1 271	1 268	1 251	1 256	1 267
16-19	54	55	48	55	60	55	43	53
20-24	106	107	107	108	109	105	106	110
25-29	144	136	132	137	139	135	126	131
30-39	327	330	327	332	332	330	327	326
40-54	430	428	430	430	427	426	430	428
55-66	185	193	197	195	191	190	210	205
67-74	14	12	16	14	11	9	13	14
Females	1 102	1 116	1 115	1 127	1 121	1 103	1 109	1 120
16-19	52	57	53	57	61	57	50	54
20-24	94	96	90	99	100	94	90	99
25-29	123	119	117	119	119	121	113	114
30-39	286	285	288	285	285	283	281	284
40-54	384	384	387	388	384	379	385	387
55-66	156	165	170	169	164	159	178	171
67-74	7	10	10	11	9	9	11	12
	Per cent
Total	73.5	73.5	73.4	74.1	73.9	72.8	72.6	73.2
16-19	50.2	51.9	47.1	52.6	56.1	52.0	42.9	48.8
20-24	73.5	74.2	72.2	75.6	76.4	72.6	71.9	76.4
25-29	84.8	84.0	82.3	84.4	84.9	84.3	81.1	82.6
30-39	88.7	88.5	88.5	88.7	88.6	88.0	87.3	87.3
40-54	87.4	87.1	87.6	87.6	86.9	86.3	86.9	86.9
55-66	64.4	64.6	66.0	65.5	63.8	63.0	66.8	65.0
67-74	7.8	8.6	10.2	9.4	7.5	7.3	9.6	10.0
Males	77.7	77.4	77.1	77.9	77.8	76.8	76.4	77.1
16-19	49.9	49.4	43.3	50.3	53.8	50.3	39.1	47.5
20-24	76.7	77.0	76.7	77.5	78.3	75.5	76.6	79.4
25-29	89.9	88.5	86.2	89.6	90.8	87.6	84.5	86.6
30-39	92.9	93.0	92.6	93.4	93.3	92.7	92.0	91.6
40-54	90.8	90.4	90.8	90.6	90.1	90.0	90.2	90.3
55-66	69.5	69.5	70.6	70.2	68.6	68.4	71.6	70.4
67-74	11.4	10.3	13.3	11.2	8.8	7.8	11.2	11.4
Females	69.2	69.6	69.6	70.3	69.9	68.8	68.7	69.3
16-19	50.6	54.6	51.1	55.0	58.4	53.8	46.9	50.2
20-24	70.1	71.3	67.5	73.6	74.4	69.6	67.1	73.4
25-29	79.6	79.3	78.3	79.2	78.9	80.8	77.6	78.5
30-39	84.3	83.7	84.3	83.9	83.7	83.1	82.3	82.9
40-54	83.8	83.7	84.2	84.5	83.5	82.5	83.5	83.5
55-66	59.2	59.6	61.3	60.8	59.0	57.5	61.9	59.5
67-74	4.8	7.1	7.4	7.8	6.3	6.9	8.3	8.7

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