LABOUR FORCE SURVEY, 4th 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
	2004	2005	3rd quarter	4th quarter	1st quarter	2nd quarter	3rd quarter	4th quarter
	1000
Total	2 382	2 400	2 401	2 371	2 378	2 403	2 421	2 396
16-19	108	108	119	113	92	109	120	109
20-24	199	198	203	193	187	202	205	199
25-29	239	239	241	241	234	236	244	242
30-39	608	602	612	608	599	599	605	606
40-54	820	832	823	820	833	833	831	833
55-66	384	397	380	375	407	399	396	387
67-74	23	23	23	20	25	25	22	19
Males	1 263	1 272	1 271	1 257	1 262	1 275	1 280	1 271
16-19	54	54	62	59	46	54	60	55
20-24	105	105	104	102	101	107	107	105
25-29	125	125	126	126	122	122	127	128
30-39	324	320	323	323	318	320	320	323
40-54	432	438	434	431	439	437	437	437
55-66	209	218	207	204	221	219	216	213
67-74	14	14	14	12	15	15	14	11
Females	1 119	1 127	1 130	1 114	1 116	1 128	1 141	1 125
16-19	54	54	57	54	47	55	61	54
20-24	95	93	99	92	86	95	98	95
25-29	114	114	115	115	112	114	117	115
30-39	284	282	289	285	281	279	285	283
40-54	388	395	389	389	394	395	394	396
55-66	175	180	173	171	186	180	179	174
67-74	9	9	9	8	10	10	8	8
	Per cent
Total	72.6	72.4	73.2	72.3	71.8	72.6	73.1	72.3
16-19	47.6	45.8	52.5	49.8	39.4	46.4	51.1	46.4
20-24	73.1	72.5	74.4	70.7	68.5	74.1	74.8	72.5
25-29	82.8	83.6	83.4	83.2	82.2	82.7	85.2	84.4
30-39	87.5	87.3	88.1	87.3	86.9	86.9	87.6	87.6
40-54	86.7	87.0	87.0	86.8	87.1	87.1	86.9	87.1
55-66	64.4	63.8	63.8	62.6	65.4	64.1	63.6	62.3
67-74	9.1	9.2	8.8	8.1	10.0	10.1	8.7	7.9
Males	76.3	76.2	76.9	76.0	75.5	76.4	76.7	76.1
16-19	45.8	44.3	52.6	49.7	37.7	44.6	49.4	45.6
20-24	75.4	75.4	74.9	73.4	72.6	77.1	76.9	74.9
25-29	86.8	87.5	87.7	87.0	86.2	86.4	88.5	89.0
30-39	91.4	91.1	91.3	91.1	90.3	91.0	91.3	91.9
40-54	90.0	90.1	90.5	89.7	90.4	90.0	90.0	89.9
55-66	69.8	69.5	69.4	68.2	70.9	70.2	68.9	67.8
67-74	12.0	11.6	11.6	10.6	12.3	12.7	11.6	9.8
Females	68.8	68.7	69.4	68.4	68.0	68.7	69.5	68.5
16-19	49.5	47.5	52.3	50.0	41.2	48.3	52.9	47.3
20-24	70.6	69.5	73.9	67.8	64.3	70.9	72.6	70.1
25-29	78.9	79.7	79.2	79.4	78.3	79.1	81.9	79.7
30-39	83.4	83.2	84.7	83.4	83.4	82.5	83.8	83.2
40-54	83.3	83.9	83.4	83.7	83.7	84.1	83.7	84.3
55-66	58.9	58.1	58.2	57.0	59.8	57.9	58.1	56.6
67-74	6.5	7.0	6.4	5.9	7.8	7.8	6.1	6.3

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