LABOUR FORCE SURVEY, 4th Qu. 2001
5	Persons in the labour force by age and sex. 1000 and as per cent of all in each group

	Annual average		2000		2001
	2000	2001	3rd quarter	4th quarter	1st quarter	2nd quarter	3rd quarter	4th quarter
	1000
Total	2 350	2 361	2 365	2 333	2 349	2 373	2 371	2 353
16-19	110	107	120	113	91	110	116	110
20-24	203	200	212	199	194	207	203	196
25-29	277	267	282	278	260	267	271	269
30-39	606	612	606	606	609	610	614	616
40-54	820	814	818	814	821	815	812	809
55-66	316	341	309	309	350	344	336	332
67-74	18	21	17	14	23	20	19	20
Males	1 258	1 260	1 259	1 248	1 258	1 269	1 263	1 249
16-19	57	54	62	60	46	55	59	58
20-24	111	106	112	107	107	111	106	100
25-29	147	144	149	148	140	144	146	144
30-39	324	327	323	324	326	325	328	328
40-54	435	430	433	432	434	431	429	428
55-66	173	185	169	169	191	188	182	178
67-74	12	14	11	10	14	14	13	14
Females	1 092	1 102	1 105	1 085	1 091	1 104	1 108	1 103
16-19	54	52	58	53	44	55	58	53
20-24	93	94	100	92	88	96	97	96
25-29	129	123	132	130	121	123	125	124
30-39	281	286	283	282	283	286	286	289
40-54	385	384	385	382	387	383	384	381
55-66	143	156	141	141	159	156	154	154
67-74	7	7	6	5	8	6	5	7
	Per cent
Total	73.4	73.5	73.9	72.9	73.0	73.8	73.8	73.3
16-19	52.0	50.2	56.5	53.0	42.7	51.8	54.7	51.7
20-24	74.2	73.5	77.3	72.2	71.5	76.1	74.6	71.7
25-29	85.0	84.8	86.4	85.1	82.9	85.0	86.1	85.3
30-39	88.4	88.7	88.4	88.5	88.3	88.4	88.9	89.2
40-54	87.7	87.4	87.6	87.2	88.0	87.4	87.2	86.9
55-66	62.9	64.4	61.9	62.0	66.2	64.8	63.5	63.0
67-74	6.9	7.8	6.3	5.4	8.5	7.8	7.2	7.8
Males	77.9	77.7	78.0	77.4	77.5	78.3	78.0	77.2
16-19	52.0	49.9	57.0	54.8	42.2	50.8	54.1	52.8
20-24	79.2	76.7	80.5	76.5	76.9	80.4	76.9	72.7
25-29	88.9	89.9	89.7	89.1	87.8	90.3	91.5	90.0
30-39	93.1	92.9	92.8	92.9	92.9	92.5	93.2	93.0
40-54	91.0	90.8	90.8	90.7	91.5	91.0	90.5	90.4
55-66	69.2	69.5	67.7	68.3	71.7	70.4	68.6	67.4
67-74	9.3	11.4	8.9	7.6	11.6	11.7	10.9	11.2
Females	68.8	69.2	69.6	68.3	68.4	69.3	69.6	69.3
16-19	52.0	50.6	56.1	51.0	43.3	52.9	55.3	50.6
20-24	69.0	70.1	74.0	67.9	65.9	71.5	72.3	70.7
25-29	80.9	79.6	82.9	81.0	77.8	79.5	80.5	80.4
30-39	83.5	84.3	83.9	83.8	83.5	84.2	84.4	85.3
40-54	84.2	83.8	84.2	83.5	84.5	83.7	83.8	83.3
55-66	56.7	59.2	56.2	55.8	60.5	59.1	58.4	58.6
67-74	4.8	4.8	4.1	3.5	5.8	4.3	3.9	4.9

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