LABOUR FORCE SURVEY, 3rd 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	2nd quarter	3rd quarter	4th quarter	1st quarter	2nd quarter	3rd quarter
	1000
Total	2 378	2 375	2 386	2 390	2 359	2 362	2 394	2 401
16-19	112	106	107	115	110	93	106	119
20-24	203	202	209	205	196	194	207	203
25-29	255	245	244	250	246	235	239	241
30-39	616	608	609	609	605	603	611	612
40-54	813	813	815	812	811	818	818	823
55-66	359	377	376	376	370	393	389	380
67-74	22	23	25	23	20	26	25	23
Males	1 262	1 259	1 267	1 264	1 250	1 256	1 267	1 271
16-19	55	52	53	58	54	44	51	62
20-24	107	106	110	106	102	104	109	104
25-29	136	130	131	134	129	123	125	126
30-39	330	324	326	322	322	324	326	323
40-54	428	429	428	427	429	431	431	434
55-66	193	205	205	205	201	213	210	207
67-74	12	13	14	13	12	16	15	14
Females	1 116	1 116	1 120	1 126	1 108	1 106	1 127	1 130
16-19	57	54	54	58	56	49	55	57
20-24	96	96	99	100	94	90	98	99
25-29	119	115	114	116	116	112	114	115
30-39	285	284	284	287	284	279	285	289
40-54	384	385	387	385	382	387	387	389
55-66	165	172	171	171	169	180	178	173
67-74	10	10	12	9	8	9	10	9
	Per cent
Total	73.5	72.9	73.2	73.4	72.4	71.9	73.0	73.2
16-19	51.9	48.5	48.8	52.5	49.9	41.3	46.7	52.5
20-24	74.2	73.8	76.4	75.2	71.6	71.2	76.0	74.4
25-29	84.0	82.8	82.6	84.6	82.9	81.7	82.9	83.4
30-39	88.5	87.1	87.3	87.3	86.6	86.8	87.9	88.1
40-54	87.1	86.7	86.9	86.6	86.6	86.5	86.5	87.0
55-66	64.6	65.2	65.0	65.0	64.1	65.9	65.2	63.8
67-74	8.6	9.1	10.0	8.9	8.0	9.8	9.7	8.8
Males	77.4	76.7	77.1	77.0	76.2	75.8	76.6	76.9
16-19	49.4	46.4	47.5	51.4	47.7	37.7	43.2	52.6
20-24	77.0	76.6	79.4	76.5	73.9	75.0	78.4	74.9
25-29	88.5	86.6	86.6	89.1	86.3	85.3	87.0	87.7
30-39	93.0	91.2	91.6	90.7	90.4	91.2	92.0	91.3
40-54	90.4	90.1	90.3	89.7	90.2	90.0	89.8	90.5
55-66	69.5	70.5	70.4	70.5	69.3	71.2	70.3	69.4
67-74	10.3	11.0	11.4	11.1	10.4	13.3	12.6	11.6
Females	69.6	69.1	69.3	69.7	68.6	68.0	69.3	69.4
16-19	54.6	50.8	50.2	53.6	52.3	45.2	50.5	52.3
20-24	71.3	70.9	73.4	73.8	69.2	67.2	73.5	73.9
25-29	79.3	78.9	78.5	80.0	79.3	78.1	78.9	79.2
30-39	83.7	82.9	82.9	83.8	82.8	82.1	83.6	84.7
40-54	83.7	83.3	83.5	83.3	82.8	82.9	83.0	83.4
55-66	59.6	59.9	59.5	59.4	58.8	60.5	60.1	58.2
67-74	7.1	7.5	8.7	7.0	5.9	6.8	7.1	6.4

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