LABOUR FORCE SURVEY, 4th Qu. 2004
13	Unemployed persons by sex and age (LFS). 1000 and per cent

Age. Year	Annual average		2003		2004
	2003	2004	3rd quarter	4th quarter	1st quarter	2nd quarter	3rd quarter	4th quarter
	1000
Total	107	106	112	98	107	111	111	97
16-24	36	36	39	30	33	42	36	31
25-54	65	65	68	62	67	63	69	60
55-74	6	6	6	6	7	6	6	5
Males	62	62	65	58	64	64	61	57
16-24	20	20	22	17	19	22	20	18
25-54	38	38	39	38	41	37	37	36
55-74	4	4	4	4	4	4	4	4
Females	45	45	47	40	43	47	50	40
16-24	16	16	17	14	14	20	16	13
25-54	26	27	29	25	26	25	32	25
55-74	2	2	2	2	2	2	2	2
	Per cent
Total	4.5	4.5	4.7	4.2	4.5	4.6	4.6	4.1
16-24	11.7	11.6	12.0	9.9	11.4	13.4	11.2	10.3
25-54	3.9	3.9	4.1	3.7	4.1	3.8	4.1	3.6
55-74	1.5	1.5	1.4	1.4	1.6	1.5	1.5	1.3
Males	4.9	4.9	5.1	4.7	5.1	5.0	4.8	4.6
16-24	12.5	12.5	13.4	10.7	12.7	14.0	12.1	11.2
25-54	4.3	4.3	4.4	4.3	4.7	4.2	4.2	4.1
55-74	1.7	1.8	1.6	1.8	1.9	1.9	1.9	1.7
Females	4.0	4.0	4.2	3.6	3.8	4.2	4.4	3.6
16-24	10.9	10.6	10.6	9.1	10.1	12.7	10.3	9.2
25-54	3.4	3.4	3.6	3.1	3.4	3.2	4.0	3.1
55-74	1.2	1.0	1.1	1.0	1.2	1.0	1.0	0.9

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