LABOUR FORCE SURVEY, 1st Qu. 2005
13	Unemployed persons by sex and age (LFS). 1000 and per cent

Age. Year	Annual average		2003	2004				2005
	2003	2004	4th quarter	1st quarter	2nd quarter	3rd quarter	4th quarter	1st quarter
	1000
Total	107	106	98	107	111	111	97	110
16-24	36	36	30	33	42	36	31	33
25-54	65	65	62	67	63	69	60	70
55-74	6	6	6	7	6	6	5	8
Males	62	62	58	64	64	61	57	63
16-24	20	20	17	19	22	20	18	18
25-54	38	38	38	41	37	37	36	40
55-74	4	4	4	4	4	4	4	5
Females	45	45	40	43	47	50	40	47
16-24	16	16	14	14	20	16	13	15
25-54	26	27	25	26	25	32	25	30
55-74	2	2	2	2	2	2	2	3
	Per cent
Total	4.5	4.5	4.2	4.5	4.6	4.6	4.1	4.6
16-24	11.7	11.6	9.9	11.4	13.4	11.2	10.3	11.7
25-54	3.9	3.9	3.7	4.1	3.8	4.1	3.6	4.2
55-74	1.5	1.5	1.4	1.6	1.5	1.5	1.3	1.8
Males	4.9	4.9	4.7	5.1	5.0	4.8	4.6	5.0
16-24	12.5	12.5	10.7	12.7	14.0	12.1	11.2	12.3
25-54	4.3	4.3	4.3	4.7	4.2	4.2	4.1	4.6
55-74	1.7	1.8	1.8	1.9	1.9	1.9	1.7	2.0
Females	4.0	4.0	3.6	3.8	4.2	4.4	3.6	4.2
16-24	10.9	10.6	9.1	10.1	12.7	10.3	9.2	11.0
25-54	3.4	3.4	3.1	3.4	3.2	4.0	3.1	3.8
55-74	1.2	1.0	1.0	1.2	1.0	1.0	0.9	1.5

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