LABOUR FORCE SURVEY, 1st Qu. 2005
5	Persons in the labour force by age and sex. 1000 and as per cent of all in each group

	Annual average		2003	2004				2005
	2003	2004	4th quarter	1st quarter	2nd quarter	3rd quarter	4th quarter	1st quarter
	1000
Total	2 375	2 382	2 359	2 362	2 394	2 401	2 371	2 378
16-19	106	108	110	93	106	119	113	92
20-24	202	199	196	194	207	203	193	187
25-29	245	239	246	235	239	241	241	234
30-39	608	608	605	603	611	612	608	599
40-54	813	820	811	818	818	823	820	833
55-66	377	384	370	393	389	380	375	407
67-74	23	23	20	26	25	23	20	25
Males	1 259	1 263	1 250	1 256	1 267	1 271	1 257	1 262
16-19	52	54	54	44	51	62	59	46
20-24	106	105	102	104	109	104	102	101
25-29	130	125	129	123	125	126	126	122
30-39	324	324	322	324	326	323	323	318
40-54	429	432	429	431	431	434	431	439
55-66	205	209	201	213	210	207	204	221
67-74	13	14	12	16	15	14	12	15
Females	1 116	1 119	1 108	1 106	1 127	1 130	1 114	1 116
16-19	54	54	56	49	55	57	54	47
20-24	96	95	94	90	98	99	92	86
25-29	115	114	116	112	114	115	115	112
30-39	284	284	284	279	285	289	285	281
40-54	385	388	382	387	387	389	389	394
55-66	172	175	169	180	178	173	171	186
67-74	10	9	8	9	10	9	8	10
	Per cent
Total	72.9	72.6	72.4	71.9	73.0	73.2	72.3	71.8
16-19	48.5	47.6	49.9	41.3	46.7	52.5	49.8	39.4
20-24	73.8	73.1	71.6	71.2	76.0	74.4	70.7	68.5
25-29	82.8	82.8	82.9	81.7	82.9	83.4	83.2	82.2
30-39	87.1	87.5	86.6	86.8	87.9	88.1	87.3	86.9
40-54	86.7	86.7	86.6	86.5	86.5	87.0	86.8	87.1
55-66	65.2	64.4	64.1	65.9	65.2	63.8	62.6	65.4
67-74	9.1	9.1	8.0	9.8	9.7	8.8	8.1	10.0
Males	76.7	76.3	76.2	75.8	76.6	76.9	76.0	75.5
16-19	46.4	45.8	47.7	37.7	43.2	52.6	49.7	37.7
20-24	76.6	75.4	73.9	75.0	78.4	74.9	73.4	72.6
25-29	86.6	86.8	86.3	85.3	87.0	87.7	87.0	86.2
30-39	91.2	91.4	90.4	91.2	92.0	91.3	91.1	90.3
40-54	90.1	90.0	90.2	90.0	89.8	90.5	89.7	90.4
55-66	70.5	69.8	69.3	71.2	70.3	69.4	68.2	70.9
67-74	11.0	12.0	10.4	13.3	12.6	11.6	10.6	12.3
Females	69.1	68.8	68.6	68.0	69.3	69.4	68.4	68.0
16-19	50.8	49.5	52.3	45.2	50.5	52.3	50.0	41.2
20-24	70.9	70.6	69.2	67.2	73.5	73.9	67.8	64.3
25-29	78.9	78.9	79.3	78.1	78.9	79.2	79.4	78.3
30-39	82.9	83.4	82.8	82.1	83.6	84.7	83.4	83.4
40-54	83.3	83.3	82.8	82.9	83.0	83.4	83.7	83.7
55-66	59.9	58.9	58.8	60.5	60.1	58.2	57.0	59.8
67-74	7.5	6.5	5.9	6.8	7.1	6.4	5.9	7.8

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