LABOUR FORCE SURVEY, 4th 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
	2003	2004	3rd quarter	4th quarter	1st quarter	2nd quarter	3rd quarter	4th quarter
	1000
Total	2 375	2 382	2 390	2 359	2 362	2 394	2 401	2 371
16-19	106	108	115	110	93	106	119	113
20-24	202	199	205	196	194	207	203	193
25-29	245	239	250	246	235	239	241	241
30-39	608	608	609	605	603	611	612	608
40-54	813	820	812	811	818	818	823	820
55-66	377	384	376	370	393	389	380	375
67-74	23	23	23	20	26	25	23	20
Males	1 259	1 263	1 264	1 250	1 256	1 267	1 271	1 257
16-19	52	54	58	54	44	51	62	59
20-24	106	105	106	102	104	109	104	102
25-29	130	125	134	129	123	125	126	126
30-39	324	324	322	322	324	326	323	323
40-54	429	432	427	429	431	431	434	431
55-66	205	209	205	201	213	210	207	204
67-74	13	14	13	12	16	15	14	12
Females	1 116	1 119	1 126	1 108	1 106	1 127	1 130	1 114
16-19	54	54	58	56	49	55	57	54
20-24	96	95	100	94	90	98	99	92
25-29	115	114	116	116	112	114	115	115
30-39	284	284	287	284	279	285	289	285
40-54	385	388	385	382	387	387	389	389
55-66	172	175	171	169	180	178	173	171
67-74	10	9	9	8	9	10	9	8
	Per cent
Total	72.9	72.6	73.4	72.4	71.9	73.0	73.2	72.3
16-19	48.5	47.6	52.5	49.9	41.3	46.7	52.5	49.8
20-24	73.8	73.1	75.2	71.6	71.2	76.0	74.4	70.7
25-29	82.8	82.8	84.6	82.9	81.7	82.9	83.4	83.2
30-39	87.1	87.5	87.3	86.6	86.8	87.9	88.1	87.3
40-54	86.7	86.7	86.6	86.6	86.5	86.5	87.0	86.8
55-66	65.2	64.4	65.0	64.1	65.9	65.2	63.8	62.6
67-74	9.1	9.1	8.9	8.0	9.8	9.7	8.8	8.1
Males	76.7	76.3	77.0	76.2	75.8	76.6	76.9	76.0
16-19	46.4	45.8	51.4	47.7	37.7	43.2	52.6	49.7
20-24	76.6	75.4	76.5	73.9	75.0	78.4	74.9	73.4
25-29	86.6	86.8	89.1	86.3	85.3	87.0	87.7	87.0
30-39	91.2	91.4	90.7	90.4	91.2	92.0	91.3	91.1
40-54	90.1	90.0	89.7	90.2	90.0	89.8	90.5	89.7
55-66	70.5	69.8	70.5	69.3	71.2	70.3	69.4	68.2
67-74	11.0	12.0	11.1	10.4	13.3	12.6	11.6	10.6
Females	69.1	68.8	69.7	68.6	68.0	69.3	69.4	68.4
16-19	50.8	49.5	53.6	52.3	45.2	50.5	52.3	50.0
20-24	70.9	70.6	73.8	69.2	67.2	73.5	73.9	67.8
25-29	78.9	78.9	80.0	79.3	78.1	78.9	79.2	79.4
30-39	82.9	83.4	83.8	82.8	82.1	83.6	84.7	83.4
40-54	83.3	83.3	83.3	82.8	82.9	83.0	83.4	83.7
55-66	59.9	58.9	59.4	58.8	60.5	60.1	58.2	57.0
67-74	7.5	6.5	7.0	5.9	6.8	7.1	6.4	5.9

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