LABOUR FORCE SURVEY, 2nd Qu. 2004
5	Persons in the labour force by age and sex. 1000 and as per cent of all in each group

	Annual average		2003				2004
	2002	2003	1st quarter	2nd quarter	3rd quarter	4th quarter	1st quarter	2nd quarter
	1000
Total	2 378	2 375	2 366	2 386	2 390	2 359	2 362	2 394
16-19	112	106	94	107	115	110	93	106
20-24	203	202	196	209	205	196	194	207
25-29	255	245	239	244	250	246	235	239
30-39	616	608	608	609	609	605	603	611
40-54	813	813	816	815	812	811	818	818
55-66	359	377	388	376	376	370	393	389
67-74	22	23	25	25	23	20	26	25
Males	1 262	1 259	1 256	1 267	1 264	1 250	1 256	1 267
16-19	55	52	43	53	58	54	44	51
20-24	107	106	106	110	106	102	104	109
25-29	136	130	126	131	134	129	123	125
30-39	330	324	327	326	322	322	324	326
40-54	428	429	430	428	427	429	431	431
55-66	193	205	210	205	205	201	213	210
67-74	12	13	13	14	13	12	16	15
Females	1 116	1 116	1 109	1 120	1 126	1 108	1 106	1 127
16-19	57	54	50	54	58	56	49	55
20-24	96	96	90	99	100	94	90	98
25-29	119	115	113	114	116	116	112	114
30-39	285	284	281	284	287	284	279	285
40-54	384	385	385	387	385	382	387	387
55-66	165	172	178	171	171	169	180	178
67-74	10	10	11	12	9	8	9	10
	Per cent
Total	73.5	72.9	72.6	73.2	73.4	72.4	71.9	73.0
16-19	51.9	48.5	42.9	48.8	52.5	49.9	41.3	46.7
20-24	74.2	73.8	71.9	76.4	75.2	71.6	71.2	76.0
25-29	84.0	82.8	81.1	82.6	84.6	82.9	81.7	82.9
30-39	88.5	87.1	87.3	87.3	87.3	86.6	86.8	87.9
40-54	87.1	86.7	86.9	86.9	86.6	86.6	86.5	86.5
55-66	64.6	65.2	66.8	65.0	65.0	64.1	65.9	65.2
67-74	8.6	9.1	9.6	10.0	8.9	8.0	9.8	9.7
Males	77.4	76.7	76.4	77.1	77.0	76.2	75.8	76.6
16-19	49.4	46.4	39.1	47.5	51.4	47.7	37.7	43.2
20-24	77.0	76.6	76.6	79.4	76.5	73.9	75.0	78.4
25-29	88.5	86.6	84.5	86.6	89.1	86.3	85.3	87.0
30-39	93.0	91.2	92.0	91.6	90.7	90.4	91.2	92.0
40-54	90.4	90.1	90.2	90.3	89.7	90.2	90.0	89.8
55-66	69.5	70.5	71.6	70.4	70.5	69.3	71.2	70.3
67-74	10.3	11.0	11.2	11.4	11.1	10.4	13.3	12.6
Females	69.6	69.1	68.7	69.3	69.7	68.6	68.0	69.3
16-19	54.6	50.8	46.9	50.2	53.6	52.3	45.2	50.5
20-24	71.3	70.9	67.1	73.4	73.8	69.2	67.2	73.5
25-29	79.3	78.9	77.6	78.5	80.0	79.3	78.1	78.9
30-39	83.7	82.9	82.3	82.9	83.8	82.8	82.1	83.6
40-54	83.7	83.3	83.5	83.5	83.3	82.8	82.9	83.0
55-66	59.6	59.9	61.9	59.5	59.4	58.8	60.5	60.1
67-74	7.1	7.5	8.3	8.7	7.0	5.9	6.8	7.1

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