Annual average		2005			2006 2)
	2004	2005	2nd quarter	3rd quarter	4th quarter	1st quarter	2nd quarter	2nd quarter
							Old	New
Persons in the labour force	2 382	2 400	2 403	2 421	2 396	2 420	2 445	2 452
Males	1 263	1 272	1 275	1 280	1 271	1 284	1 294	1 298
Females	1 119	1 127	1 128	1 141	1 125	1 137	1 151	1 154
Total 15-24 years	307	306	311	325	308	324	311	344
Males	159	158	161	167	159	167	158	176
Females	148	148	150	158	149	157	153	168
Total 25-66 years	2 051	2 071	2 066	2 075	2 069	2 079	2 107	2 086
Males	1 090	1 100	1 099	1 100	1 101	1 105	1 120	1 108
Females	962	971	967	975	968	974	987	978
Employed persons	2 276	2 289	2 286	2 304	2 298	2 326	2 347	2 354
Males	1 201	1 211	1 212	1 217	1 216	1 232	1 242	1 245
Females	1 074	1 078	1 074	1 087	1 082	1 094	1 105	1 109
Total 15-24 years	272	269	267	286	276	294	276	304
Males	139	139	138	146	142	151	140	156
Females	133	131	129	141	134	143	136	148
Total 25-66 years	1 981	1 997	1 994	1 996	2 003	2 015	2 044	2 028
Males	1 048	1 059	1 059	1 057	1 064	1 069	1 086	1 076
Females	933	938	935	939	939	946	958	952
Per cent of population
Persons in the labour force	72,6	72,4	72,6	73,1	72,3	71,6	73,0	72,3
Males	76,3	76,2	76,4	76,7	76,1	75,3	76,6	75,8
Females	68,8	68,7	68,7	69,5	68,5	67,8	69,4	68,7
Total 15-24 years	61,5	60,2	61,3	63,9	60,5	56,3	59,9	59,5
Males	61,8	61,0	62,0	64,2	61,3	57,2	59,6	59,6
Females	61,2	59,4	60,5	63,5	59,6	55,4	60,1	59,5
Total 25-66 years	81,2	81,1	80,9	81,2	80,9	81,3	81,9	81,3
Males	85,3	85,1	85,1	85,1	85,0	85,3	86,0	85,5
Females	77,0	76,9	76,7	77,2	76,7	77,2	77,8	77,1
Employed persons	69,3	69,1	69,0	69,6	69,4	68,8	70,1	69,4
Males	72,6	72,5	72,6	72,9	72,9	72,2	73,5	72,8
Females	66,0	65,6	65,4	66,2	65,8	65,2	66,6	65,9
Total 15-24 years	54,4	52,9	52,6	56,3	54,2	51,1	53,0	52,7
Males	54,1	53,3	53,2	56,1	54,6	51,6	52,5	52,8
Females	54,7	52,5	52,0	56,6	53,7	50,5	53,5	52,6
Total 25-66 years	78,4	78,2	78,1	78,1	78,3	78,8	79,5	79,0
Males	82,0	81,9	82,0	81,8	82,1	82,6	83,4	83,0
Females	74,7	74,4	74,1	74,4	74,5	74,9	75,5	75,0

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 2nd quarter 2006 and 2nd quarter 2005, figures from 2nd 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 have been corrected 16.10.2006.