LABOUR FORCE SURVEY, 1st Qu. 2009
13	Unemployed persons aged 15-74 by sex and age (LFS). 1000 and per cent

Age. Year	Annual average		2007	2008				2009
	2007	2008	4th quarter	1st quarter	2nd quarter	3rd quarter	4th quarter	1st quarter
	1000
Total	63	67	54	65	72	66	66	79
15-24	26	29	19	27	33	28	26	31
25-54	33	34	30	33	34	34	36	42
55-74	4	4	5	6	4	3	4	6
Males	34	38	31	37	40	36	37	50
15-24	14	16	11	15	18	16	15	18
25-54	17	19	17	18	19	19	20	27
55-74	3	3	3	4	3	2	3	5
Females	29	30	24	29	31	29	29	29
15-24	12	13	8	12	15	13	11	13
25-54	16	15	14	15	15	15	16	15
55-74	2	2	2	2	2	1	2	1
	Per cent
Total	2.5	2.6	2.1	2.5	2.8	2.5	2.6	3.1
15-24	7.3	7.5	5.4	7.2	8.4	7.3	7.2	8.7
25-54	1.9	2.0	1.8	1.9	2.0	1.9	2.0	2.4
55-74	1.0	1.0	1.1	1.2	1.0	0.7	1.0	1.4
Males	2.6	2.8	2.3	2.7	2.9	2.6	2.7	3.7
15-24	7.9	8.2	6.3	8.1	9.1	7.8	8.0	10.1
25-54	1.9	2.0	1.8	2.0	2.1	2.0	2.1	2.9
55-74	1.1	1.1	1.1	1.4	1.1	0.8	1.1	2.1
Females	2.5	2.4	2.0	2.4	2.6	2.4	2.4	2.4
15-24	6.6	6.8	4.5	6.4	7.7	6.7	6.3	7.3
25-54	2.0	1.9	1.7	1.8	1.8	1.9	1.9	1.8
55-74	0.8	0.8	1.0	1.0	0.8	0.6	0.8	0.6

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