Annual average		2005		2006 2 3
	2004	2005	3rd quarter	4th quarter	1st quarter	2nd quarter	3rd quarter	3rd quarter
							Old	New
Persons in the labour force	2 382	2 400	2 421	2 396	2 420	2 452	2 455	2 464
Males	1 263	1 272	1 280	1 271	1 284	1 298	1 301	1 305
Females	1 119	1 127	1 141	1 125	1 137	1 154	1 155	1 159
Total 15-24 years	307	306	325	308	324	344	329	354
Males	159	158	167	159	167	176	166	179
Females	148	148	158	149	157	168	163	175
Total 25-66 years	2 051	2 071	2 075	2 069	2 079	2 086	2 099	2 087
Males	1 090	1 100	1 100	1 101	1 105	1 108	1 117	1 111
Females	962	971	975	968	974	978	981	976
Employed persons	2 276	2 289	2 304	2 298	2 326	2 354	2 373	2 381
Males	1 201	1 211	1 217	1 216	1 232	1 245	1 258	1 262
Females	1 074	1 078	1 087	1 082	1 094	1 109	1 115	1 119
Total 15-24 years	272	269	286	276	294	304	303	325
Males	139	139	146	142	151	156	154	166
Females	133	131	141	134	143	148	149	159
Total 25-66 years	1 981	1 997	1 996	2 003	2 015	2 028	2 042	2 032
Males	1 048	1 059	1 057	1 064	1 069	1 076	1 086	1 081
Females	933	938	939	939	946	952	956	951
Per cent of population
Persons in the labour force	72,6	72,4	73,1	72,3	71,6	72,3	73,3	72,4
Males	76,3	76,2	76,7	76,1	75,3	75,8	76,9	76,0
Females	68,8	68,7	69,5	68,5	67,8	68,7	69,6	68,8
Total 15-24 years	61,5	60,2	63,9	60,5	56,3	59,5	63,2	60,9
Males	61,8	61,0	64,2	61,3	57,2	59,6	62,4	60,2
Females	61,2	59,4	63,5	59,6	55,4	59,5	64,0	61,6
Total 25-66 years	81,2	81,1	81,2	80,9	81,3	81,3	81,5	81,1
Males	85,3	85,1	85,1	85,0	85,3	85,5	85,7	85,4
Females	77,0	76,9	77,2	76,7	77,2	77,1	77,2	76,8
Employed persons	69,3	69,1	69,6	69,4	68,8	69,4	70,8	70,0
Males	72,6	72,5	72,9	72,9	72,2	72,8	74,4	73,5
Females	66,0	65,6	66,2	65,8	65,2	65,9	67,2	66,4
Total 15-24 years	54,4	52,9	56,3	54,2	51,1	52,7	58,2	56,0
Males	54,1	53,3	56,1	54,6	51,6	52,8	58,0	56,0
Females	54,7	52,5	56,6	53,7	50,5	52,6	58,4	56,0
Total 25-66 years	78,4	78,2	78,1	78,3	78,8	79,0	79,3	79,0
Males	82,0	81,9	81,8	82,1	82,6	83,0	83,3	83,0
Females	74,7	74,4	74,4	74,5	74,9	75,0	75,2	74,9

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 3rd quarter 2006 and 3rd quarter 2005, figures from 3rd quarter 2006 are published according to both the revised and the unrevised LFS regarding to the main changes.

3 Numbers for 1st and 2nd quarter 2006 have been corrected 16.10.2006.