LABOUR FORCE SURVEY, 4th Qu. 2008
13	Unemployed persons aged 15-74 by sex and age (LFS). 1000 and per cent

Age. Year	Annual average		2007		2008
	2007	2008	3rd quarter	4th quarter	1st quarter	2nd quarter	3rd quarter	4th quarter
	1000
Total	63	67	63	54	65	72	66	66
15-24	26	29	25	19	27	33	28	26
25-54	33	34	35	30	33	34	34	36
55-74	4	4	4	5	6	4	3	4
Males	34	38	33	31	37	40	36	37
15-24	14	16	13	11	15	18	16	15
25-54	17	19	17	17	18	19	19	20
55-74	3	3	3	3	4	3	2	3
Females	29	30	30	24	29	31	29	29
15-24	12	13	11	8	12	15	13	11
25-54	16	15	18	14	15	15	15	16
55-74	2	2	1	2	2	2	1	2
	Per cent
Total	2.5	2.6	2.5	2.1	2.5	2.8	2.5	2.6
15-24	7.3	7.5	6.7	5.4	7.2	8.4	7.3	7.2
25-54	1.9	2.0	2.0	1.8	1.9	2.0	1.9	2.0
55-74	1.0	1.0	0.9	1.1	1.2	1.0	0.7	1.0
Males	2.6	2.8	2.5	2.3	2.7	2.9	2.6	2.7
15-24	7.9	8.2	7.2	6.3	8.1	9.1	7.8	8.0
25-54	1.9	2.0	1.9	1.8	2.0	2.1	2.0	2.1
55-74	1.1	1.1	1.1	1.1	1.4	1.1	0.8	1.1
Females	2.5	2.4	2.5	2.0	2.4	2.6	2.4	2.4
15-24	6.6	6.8	6.3	4.5	6.4	7.7	6.7	6.3
25-54	2.0	1.9	2.2	1.7	1.8	1.8	1.9	1.9
55-74	0.8	0.8	0.5	1.0	1.0	0.8	0.6	0.8

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