LABOUR FORCE SURVEY, 1st Qu. 2008
13	Unemployed persons aged 15-74 by sex and age (LFS). 1 000 and per cent

Age. Year	Annual average		2006	2007				2008
	2006	2007	4th quarter	1st quarter	2nd quarter	3rd quarter	4th quarter	1st quarter
	1 000
Total	84	63	60	66	69	63	54	65
15-24	29	26	19	27	31	25	19	27
25-54	50	33	37	35	33	35	30	33
55-74	5	4	5	4	4	4	5	6
Males	45	34	33	36	37	33	31	37
15-24	15	14	11	14	18	13	11	15
25-54	27	17	20	20	15	17	17	18
55-74	3	3	2	3	3	3	3	4
Females	39	29	27	31	32	30	24	29
15-24	14	12	8	14	13	11	8	12
25-54	23	16	17	15	18	18	14	15
55-74	2	2	3	2	1	1	2	2
	Per cent
Total	3.4	2.5	2.5	2.7	2.7	2.5	2.1	2.5
15-24	8.6	7.3	5.7	8.2	8.8	6.7	5.4	7.2
25-54	3.0	1.9	2.2	2.0	1.9	2.0	1.8	1.9
55-74	1.2	1.0	1.1	1.0	1.0	0.9	1.1	1.2
Males	3.5	2.6	2.6	2.7	2.8	2.5	2.3	2.7
15-24	8.6	7.9	6.5	8.0	10.1	7.2	6.3	8.1
25-54	3.1	1.9	2.3	2.2	1.7	1.9	1.8	2.0
55-74	1.3	1.1	0.9	1.1	1.2	1.1	1.1	1.4
Females	3.4	2.5	2.4	2.6	2.7	2.5	2.0	2.4
15-24	8.7	6.6	4.9	8.5	7.4	6.3	4.5	6.4
25-54	2.8	2.0	2.1	1.9	2.2	2.2	1.7	1.8
55-74	1.1	0.8	1.4	0.9	0.7	0.5	1.0	1.0

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