LABOUR FORCE SURVEY, 1st Qu. 2004
5	Persons in the labour force by age and sex. 1000 and as per cent of all in each group

	Annual average		2002	2003				2004
	2002	2003	4th quarter	1st quarter	2nd quarter	3rd quarter	4th quarter	1st quarter
	1000
Total	2 378	2 375	2 354	2 366	2 386	2 390	2 359	2 362
16-19	112	106	112	94	107	115	110	93
20-24	203	202	199	196	209	205	196	194
25-29	255	245	257	239	244	250	246	235
30-39	616	608	613	608	609	609	605	603
40-54	813	813	805	816	815	812	811	818
55-66	359	377	349	388	376	376	370	393
67-74	22	23	19	25	25	23	20	26
Males	1 262	1 259	1 251	1 256	1 267	1 264	1 250	1 256
16-19	55	52	55	43	53	58	54	44
20-24	107	106	105	106	110	106	102	104
25-29	136	130	135	126	131	134	129	123
30-39	330	324	330	327	326	322	322	324
40-54	428	429	426	430	428	427	429	431
55-66	193	205	190	210	205	205	201	213
67-74	12	13	9	13	14	13	12	16
Females	1 116	1 116	1 103	1 109	1 120	1 126	1 108	1 106
16-19	57	54	57	50	54	58	56	49
20-24	96	96	94	90	99	100	94	90
25-29	119	115	121	113	114	116	116	112
30-39	285	284	283	281	284	287	284	279
40-54	384	385	379	385	387	385	382	387
55-66	165	172	159	178	171	171	169	180
67-74	10	10	9	11	12	9	8	9
	Per cent
Total	73.5	72.9	72.8	72.6	73.2	73.4	72.4	71.9
16-19	51.9	48.5	52.0	42.9	48.8	52.5	49.9	41.3
20-24	74.2	73.8	72.6	71.9	76.4	75.2	71.6	71.2
25-29	84.0	82.8	84.3	81.1	82.6	84.6	82.9	81.7
30-39	88.5	87.1	88.0	87.3	87.3	87.3	86.6	86.8
40-54	87.1	86.7	86.3	86.9	86.9	86.6	86.6	86.5
55-66	64.6	65.2	63.0	66.8	65.0	65.0	64.1	65.9
67-74	8.6	9.1	7.3	9.6	10.0	8.9	8.0	9.8
Males	77.4	76.7	76.8	76.4	77.1	77.0	76.2	75.8
16-19	49.4	46.4	50.3	39.1	47.5	51.4	47.7	37.7
20-24	77.0	76.6	75.5	76.6	79.4	76.5	73.9	75.0
25-29	88.5	86.6	87.6	84.5	86.6	89.1	86.3	85.3
30-39	93.0	91.2	92.7	92.0	91.6	90.7	90.4	91.2
40-54	90.4	90.1	90.0	90.2	90.3	89.7	90.2	90.0
55-66	69.5	70.5	68.4	71.6	70.4	70.5	69.3	71.2
67-74	10.3	11.0	7.8	11.2	11.4	11.1	10.4	13.3
Females	69.6	69.1	68.8	68.7	69.3	69.7	68.6	68.0
16-19	54.6	50.8	53.8	46.9	50.2	53.6	52.3	45.2
20-24	71.3	70.9	69.6	67.1	73.4	73.8	69.2	67.2
25-29	79.3	78.9	80.8	77.6	78.5	80.0	79.3	78.1
30-39	83.7	82.9	83.1	82.3	82.9	83.8	82.8	82.1
40-54	83.7	83.3	82.5	83.5	83.5	83.3	82.8	82.9
55-66	59.6	59.9	57.5	61.9	59.5	59.4	58.8	60.5
67-74	7.1	7.5	6.9	8.3	8.7	7.0	5.9	6.8

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