LABOUR FORCE SURVEY, 3rd Qu. 2005
5	Persons in the labour force by age and sex. 1000 and as per cent of all in each group

	Annual average		2004			2005
	2003	2004	2nd quarter	3rd quarter	4th quarter	1st quarter	2nd quarter	3rd quarter
	1000
Total	2 375	2 382	2 394	2 401	2 371	2 378	2 403	2 421
16-19	106	108	106	119	113	92	109	120
20-24	202	199	207	203	193	187	202	205
25-29	245	239	239	241	241	234	236	244
30-39	608	608	611	612	608	599	599	605
40-54	813	820	818	823	820	833	833	831
55-66	377	384	389	380	375	407	399	396
67-74	23	23	25	23	20	25	25	22
Males	1 259	1 263	1 267	1 271	1 257	1 262	1 275	1 280
16-19	52	54	51	62	59	46	54	60
20-24	106	105	109	104	102	101	107	107
25-29	130	125	125	126	126	122	122	127
30-39	324	324	326	323	323	318	320	320
40-54	429	432	431	434	431	439	437	437
55-66	205	209	210	207	204	221	219	216
67-74	13	14	15	14	12	15	15	14
Females	1 116	1 119	1 127	1 130	1 114	1 116	1 128	1 141
16-19	54	54	55	57	54	47	55	61
20-24	96	95	98	99	92	86	95	98
25-29	115	114	114	115	115	112	114	117
30-39	284	284	285	289	285	281	279	285
40-54	385	388	387	389	389	394	395	394
55-66	172	175	178	173	171	186	180	179
67-74	10	9	10	9	8	10	10	8
	Per cent
Total	72.9	72.6	73.0	73.2	72.3	71.8	72.6	73.1
16-19	48.5	47.6	46.7	52.5	49.8	39.4	46.4	51.1
20-24	73.8	73.1	76.0	74.4	70.7	68.5	74.1	74.8
25-29	82.8	82.8	82.9	83.4	83.2	82.2	82.7	85.2
30-39	87.1	87.5	87.9	88.1	87.3	86.9	86.9	87.6
40-54	86.7	86.7	86.5	87.0	86.8	87.1	87.1	86.9
55-66	65.2	64.4	65.2	63.8	62.6	65.4	64.1	63.6
67-74	9.1	9.1	9.7	8.8	8.1	10.0	10.1	8.7
Males	76.7	76.3	76.6	76.9	76.0	75.5	76.4	76.7
16-19	46.4	45.8	43.2	52.6	49.7	37.7	44.6	49.4
20-24	76.6	75.4	78.4	74.9	73.4	72.6	77.1	76.9
25-29	86.6	86.8	87.0	87.7	87.0	86.2	86.4	88.5
30-39	91.2	91.4	92.0	91.3	91.1	90.3	91.0	91.3
40-54	90.1	90.0	89.8	90.5	89.7	90.4	90.0	90.0
55-66	70.5	69.8	70.3	69.4	68.2	70.9	70.2	68.9
67-74	11.0	12.0	12.6	11.6	10.6	12.3	12.7	11.6
Females	69.1	68.8	69.3	69.4	68.4	68.0	68.7	69.5
16-19	50.8	49.5	50.5	52.3	50.0	41.2	48.3	52.9
20-24	70.9	70.6	73.5	73.9	67.8	64.3	70.9	72.6
25-29	78.9	78.9	78.9	79.2	79.4	78.3	79.1	81.9
30-39	82.9	83.4	83.6	84.7	83.4	83.4	82.5	83.8
40-54	83.3	83.3	83.0	83.4	83.7	83.7	84.1	83.7
55-66	59.9	58.9	60.1	58.2	57.0	59.8	57.9	58.1
67-74	7.5	6.5	7.1	6.4	5.9	7.8	7.8	6.1

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