LABOUR FORCE SURVEY, 4th Qu. 2003
5	Persons in the labour force by age and sex. 1000 and as per cent of all in each group

	Annual average		2002		2003
	2002	2003	3rd quarter	4th quarter	1st quarter	2nd quarter	3rd quarter	4th quarter
	1000
Total	2 378	2 375	2 389	2 354	2 366	2 386	2 390	2 359
16-19	112	106	120	112	94	107	115	110
20-24	203	202	209	199	196	209	205	196
25-29	255	245	258	257	239	244	250	246
30-39	616	608	617	613	608	609	609	605
40-54	813	813	811	805	816	815	812	811
55-66	359	377	355	349	388	376	376	370
67-74	22	23	19	19	25	25	23	20
Males	1 262	1 259	1 268	1 251	1 256	1 267	1 264	1 250
16-19	55	52	60	55	43	53	58	54
20-24	107	106	109	105	106	110	106	102
25-29	136	130	139	135	126	131	134	129
30-39	330	324	332	330	327	326	322	322
40-54	428	429	427	426	430	428	427	429
55-66	193	205	191	190	210	205	205	201
67-74	12	13	11	9	13	14	13	12
Females	1 116	1 116	1 121	1 103	1 109	1 120	1 126	1 108
16-19	57	54	61	57	50	54	58	56
20-24	96	96	100	94	90	99	100	94
25-29	119	115	119	121	113	114	116	116
30-39	285	284	285	283	281	284	287	284
40-54	384	385	384	379	385	387	385	382
55-66	165	172	164	159	178	171	171	169
67-74	10	10	9	9	11	12	9	8
	Per cent
Total	73.5	72.9	73.9	72.8	72.6	73.2	73.4	72.4
16-19	51.9	48.5	56.1	52.0	42.9	48.8	52.5	49.9
20-24	74.2	73.8	76.4	72.6	71.9	76.4	75.2	71.6
25-29	84.0	82.8	84.9	84.3	81.1	82.6	84.6	82.9
30-39	88.5	87.1	88.6	88.0	87.3	87.3	87.3	86.6
40-54	87.1	86.7	86.9	86.3	86.9	86.9	86.6	86.6
55-66	64.6	65.2	63.8	63.0	66.8	65.0	65.0	64.1
67-74	8.6	9.1	7.5	7.3	9.6	10.0	8.9	8.0
Males	77.4	76.7	77.8	76.8	76.4	77.1	77.0	76.2
16-19	49.4	46.4	53.8	50.3	39.1	47.5	51.4	47.7
20-24	77.0	76.6	78.3	75.5	76.6	79.4	76.5	73.9
25-29	88.5	86.6	90.8	87.6	84.5	86.6	89.1	86.3
30-39	93.0	91.2	93.3	92.7	92.0	91.6	90.7	90.4
40-54	90.4	90.1	90.1	90.0	90.2	90.3	89.7	90.2
55-66	69.5	70.5	68.6	68.4	71.6	70.4	70.5	69.3
67-74	10.3	11.0	8.8	7.8	11.2	11.4	11.1	10.4
Females	69.6	69.1	69.9	68.8	68.7	69.3	69.7	68.6
16-19	54.6	50.8	58.4	53.8	46.9	50.2	53.6	52.3
20-24	71.3	70.9	74.4	69.6	67.1	73.4	73.8	69.2
25-29	79.3	78.9	78.9	80.8	77.6	78.5	80.0	79.3
30-39	83.7	82.9	83.7	83.1	82.3	82.9	83.8	82.8
40-54	83.7	83.3	83.5	82.5	83.5	83.5	83.3	82.8
55-66	59.6	59.9	59.0	57.5	61.9	59.5	59.4	58.8
67-74	7.1	7.5	6.3	6.9	8.3	8.7	7.0	5.9

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