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LABOUR FORCE SURVEY, 1st Qu. 2006
16 Unemployed and underemployed persons aged 15-741,2, by sex and desired working hours per week. Number of man-weeks (of 37,5 hours) supplied (LFS). 10003
  Annual average 2005 20062
2004 2005 1st quarter 2nd quarter 3rd quarter 4th quarter 1st quarter
  Old New
                 
TOTAL                
Unemployed persons 106 111 110 116 117 98 98 95
1-19 hours per week 19 20 21 16 24 20 19 19
20-36 hours per week 18 22 19 31 21 19 12 12
37 hours per week and over 70 68 70 70 73 60 68 64
Average working hours desired (hours per week) 32 32 32 32 31 31 32 32
Number of man-weeks desired 91 93 93 99 98 81 83 80
                 
Underemployed persons 98 98 109 97 90 95 113 114
1-19 hours per week 9 9 10 10 6 9 6 6
20-36 hours per week 38 37 41 34 37 39 57 56
37 hours per week and over 51 51 58 53 48 47 50 51
Average working hours desired (hours per week) 33 33 33 33 33 32 33 33
Desired man-weeks subtracted present man-weeks 36 36 41 36 34 34 41 41
                 
Number of man-weeks supplied,tot 126 129 134 136 132 116 124 121
                 
MALES                
Unemployed persons 62 61 63 63 63 55 55 52
1-19 hours per week 9 8 9 7 10 9 8 7
20-36 hours per week 7 8 8 12 6 7 3 3
37 hours per week and over 46 45 46 45 48 39 44 42
Average working hours desired (hours per week) 33 33 33 34 34 33 34 34
Number of man-weeks desired 55 54 56 56 57 48 49 47
                 
Underemployed persons 26 24 29 24 23 21 28 28
1-19 hours per week 2 2 3 4 1 1 1 1
20-36 hours per week 6 5 6 4 5 5 9 9
37 hours per week and over 18 17 20 17 17 14 18 18
Average working hours desired (hours per week) 34 34 35 33 35 34 35 34
Desired man-weeks subtracted present man-weeks 12 11 13 11 11 10 12 12
                 
Number of man-weeks supplied,tot 67 65 70 67 67 57 61 59
                 
FEMALES                
Unemployed persons 45 49 47 53 54 43 43 43
1-19 hours per week 10 12 12 9 14 11 11 11
20-36 hours per week 11 14 12 19 15 12 9 9
37 hours per week and over 24 24 24 25 25 20 23 23
Average working hours desired (hours per week) 30 29 29 30 29 29 29 29
Number of man-weeks desired 36 39 37 43 41 33 34 33
                 
Underemployed persons 72 73 80 73 67 74 85 86
1-19 hours per week 7 6 7 7 5 7 5 5
20-36 hours per week 32 33 35 30 32 34 48 48
37 hours per week and over 34 34 38 36 31 33 32 34
Average working hours desired (hours per week) 32 32 32 32 33 32 32 32
Desired man-weeks subtracted present man-weeks 24 25 28 25 23 25 29 29
                 
Number of man-weeks supplied,tot 60 64 64 68 65 58 63 62

1 As from 2006 the age limit to participate in the LFS was lowered from 16 to 15 years. At the same time the definition of age was changed from completed years at the end of the year to completed years at the time of the reference week.
2 As from January 2006 the LFS was revised, and the figures for 2006 are based on this revised survey. To improve the comparability for the figures between 2nd quarter 2006 and 2nd quarter 2005, figures for 2nd quarter 2006 are published according to both the revised and the unrevised LFS regarding to the main changes.
3 Numbers for 1st quarter 2006 have been corrected 16.10.2006