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LABOUR FORCE SURVEY, 3rd Qu. 2008
16 Unemployed and underemployed persons aged 15-74, by sex and desired working hours per week. Number of man-weeks (of 37,5 hours) supplied (LFS). 1 000
  Annual average 2007 2008
2006 2007 2nd quarter 3rd quarter 4th quarter 1st quarter 2nd quarter 3rd quarter
                 
TOTAL                
Unemployed persons 84 63 69 63 54 65 72 66
1-19 hours per week 13 12 9 12 11 19 19 15
20-36 hours per week 16 12 18 11 10 15 17 13
37 hours per week and over 55 39 41 40 33 31 36 38
Average working hours desired (hours per week) 32 31 32 32 31 29 29 30
Number of man-weeks desired 72 53 59 53 46 50 55 52
                 
Underemployed persons 76 66 71 65 58 57 68 59
1-19 hours per week 6 5 6 3 5 4 6 4
20-36 hours per week 32 27 29 28 22 25 25 24
37 hours per week and over 39 34 36 34 31 27 36 32
Average working hours desired (hours per week) 33 33 33 34 33 33 33 33
Desired man-weeks subtracted present man-weeks 28 23 26 23 21 19 24 21
                 
Number of man-weeks supplied,tot 99 76 85 76 66 69 80 73
                 
MALES                
Unemployed persons 45 34 37 33 31 37 40 36
1-19 hours per week 5 5 4 6 5 8 7 7
20-36 hours per week 5 4 8 4 3 8 9 4
37 hours per week and over 35 24 25 24 22 21 24 26
Average working hours desired (hours per week) 34 33 33 33 34 31 31 32
Number of man-weeks desired 41 30 33 29 28 31 33 31
                 
Underemployed persons 19 15 19 13 12 11 17 12
1-19 hours per week 1 1 2 - 2 1 3 1
20-36 hours per week 5 3 4 2 2 2 5 2
37 hours per week and over 13 11 13 11 9 8 10 8
Average working hours desired (hours per week) 35 35 34 37 34 33 32 34
Desired man-weeks subtracted present man-weeks 8 6 8 6 5 5 7 5
                 
Number of man-weeks supplied,tot 49 36 41 35 33 35 41 36
                 
FEMALES                
Unemployed persons 39 29 32 30 24 29 31 29
1-19 hours per week 8 7 5 6 6 11 11 8
20-36 hours per week 11 8 11 8 7 7 8 9
37 hours per week and over 20 14 16 16 10 10 12 12
Average working hours desired (hours per week) 30 29 30 31 28 26 26 28
Number of man-weeks desired 31 23 26 25 18 20 22 22
                 
Underemployed persons 57 51 52 52 46 45 50 48
1-19 hours per week 4 4 4 2 3 3 3 3
20-36 hours per week 26 24 25 26 20 23 20 21
37 hours per week and over 26 23 23 23 22 19 27 24
Average working hours desired (hours per week) 33 33 33 33 33 33 34 33
Desired man-weeks subtracted present man-weeks 20 17 18 17 16 14 17 16
                 
Number of man-weeks supplied,tot 51 40 44 41 34 34 39 37