LABOUR FORCE SURVEY, 1st Qu. 2008
5	Persons in the labour force aged 15-74 by age and sex. 1 000 and as per cent of all in each group

	Annual average		2006	2007				2008
	2006	2007	4th quarter	1st quarter	2nd quarter	3rd quarter	4th quarter	1st quarter
	1 000
Total	2 446	2 507	2 450	2 463	2 503	2 522	2 538	2 562
15-19	131	139	126	130	140	145	142	155
20-24	205	213	200	202	215	220	214	218
25-29	247	249	247	245	248	251	252	255
30-39	606	608	604	607	606	607	610	609
40-54	836	854	838	843	850	855	867	868
55-66	398	416	407	407	415	417	426	427
67-74	22	27	27	28	28	27	27	31
Males	1 296	1 323	1 298	1 300	1 322	1 332	1 340	1 350
15-19	64	68	62	62	70	72	68	76
20-24	108	110	104	107	111	112	109	111
25-29	130	132	131	129	131	133	133	132
30-39	320	321	319	319	320	323	323	322
40-54	439	450	441	443	447	451	458	458
55-66	220	226	224	221	225	225	231	231
67-74	14	17	17	18	17	16	17	19
Females	1 150	1 183	1 152	1 163	1 181	1 190	1 199	1 212
15-19	68	71	64	68	70	74	74	79
20-24	97	103	96	95	105	108	105	107
25-29	117	117	116	116	117	118	119	123
30-39	286	286	286	288	286	284	288	286
40-54	396	404	397	400	403	404	408	409
55-66	178	191	183	186	190	192	194	196
67-74	8	10	10	10	10	10	10	12
	Per cent
Total	72.0	72.8	71.7	71.9	72.8	73.1	73.2	73.6
15-19	43.2	44.8	40.9	42.3	45.3	46.6	44.9	49.1
20-24	74.6	75.6	72.1	72.0	76.8	78.3	75.4	76.2
25-29	85.7	85.4	85.5	84.9	85.3	85.8	85.6	85.7
30-39	87.9	88.7	87.9	88.5	88.5	88.6	89.1	88.9
40-54	86.8	87.3	86.6	86.7	87.0	87.3	88.1	87.9
55-66	63.5	65.5	64.4	64.4	65.5	65.6	66.3	65.8
67-74	9.0	10.5	10.7	10.9	10.6	10.2	10.4	11.6
Males	75.6	76.0	75.3	75.2	76.1	76.4	76.3	76.5
15-19	40.9	42.6	39.4	39.5	44.2	44.7	42.0	47.0
20-24	77.2	76.4	74.0	74.7	77.9	78.0	75.1	76.5
25-29	89.5	88.8	89.8	89.1	89.2	88.9	88.0	86.5
30-39	91.8	92.3	91.6	91.4	92.0	93.0	92.8	92.4
40-54	90.0	90.5	89.8	89.9	90.1	90.4	91.6	90.9
55-66	69.4	70.3	70.0	69.6	70.3	70.2	71.1	71.0
67-74	12.0	14.0	14.3	15.0	13.8	13.2	14.0	15.0
Females	68.3	69.5	68.1	68.6	69.5	69.8	70.0	70.5
15-19	45.6	47.0	42.6	45.2	46.4	48.6	48.0	51.2
20-24	71.8	74.8	70.2	69.2	75.7	78.6	75.8	75.9
25-29	81.8	81.9	81.1	80.6	81.4	82.5	83.0	84.8
30-39	83.8	84.9	84.1	85.4	84.9	84.1	85.3	85.4
40-54	83.5	84.0	83.3	83.5	83.8	84.0	84.5	84.8
55-66	57.5	60.5	58.7	59.3	60.7	60.8	61.4	60.5
67-74	6.2	7.4	7.3	7.2	7.6	7.5	7.2	8.6

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