LABOUR FORCE SURVEY, 2nd Qu. 2002
5	Persons in the labour force by age and sex. 1000 and as per cent of all in each group

	Annual average		2001				2002
	2000	2001	1st quarter	2nd quarter	3rd quarter	4th quarter	1st quarter	2nd quarter
	1000
Total	2 350	2 361	2 349	2 373	2 371	2 353	2 373	2 398
16-19	110	107	91	110	116	110	101	113
20-24	203	200	194	207	203	196	197	206
25-29	277	267	260	267	271	269	249	256
30-39	606	612	609	610	614	616	615	617
40-54	820	814	821	815	812	809	817	818
55-66	316	341	350	344	336	332	367	364
67-74	18	21	23	20	19	20	27	24
Males	1 258	1 260	1 258	1 269	1 263	1 249	1 258	1 271
16-19	57	54	46	55	59	58	48	55
20-24	111	106	107	111	106	100	107	108
25-29	147	144	140	144	146	144	132	137
30-39	324	327	326	325	328	328	327	332
40-54	435	430	434	431	429	428	430	430
55-66	173	185	191	188	182	178	197	195
67-74	12	14	14	14	13	14	16	14
Females	1 092	1 102	1 091	1 104	1 108	1 103	1 115	1 127
16-19	54	52	44	55	58	53	53	57
20-24	93	94	88	96	97	96	90	99
25-29	129	123	121	123	125	124	117	119
30-39	281	286	283	286	286	289	288	285
40-54	385	384	387	383	384	381	387	388
55-66	143	156	159	156	154	154	170	169
67-74	7	7	8	6	5	7	10	11
	Per cent
Total	73.4	73.5	73.0	73.8	73.8	73.3	73.4	74.1
16-19	52.0	50.2	42.7	51.8	54.7	51.7	47.1	52.6
20-24	74.2	73.5	71.5	76.1	74.6	71.7	72.2	75.6
25-29	85.0	84.8	82.9	85.0	86.1	85.3	82.3	84.4
30-39	88.4	88.7	88.3	88.4	88.9	89.2	88.5	88.7
40-54	87.7	87.4	88.0	87.4	87.2	86.9	87.6	87.6
55-66	62.9	64.4	66.2	64.8	63.5	63.0	66.0	65.5
67-74	6.9	7.8	8.5	7.8	7.2	7.8	10.2	9.4
Males	77.9	77.7	77.5	78.3	78.0	77.2	77.1	77.9
16-19	52.0	49.9	42.2	50.8	54.1	52.8	43.3	50.3
20-24	79.2	76.7	76.9	80.4	76.9	72.7	76.7	77.5
25-29	88.9	89.9	87.8	90.3	91.5	90.0	86.2	89.6
30-39	93.1	92.9	92.9	92.5	93.2	93.0	92.6	93.4
40-54	91.0	90.8	91.5	91.0	90.5	90.4	90.8	90.6
55-66	69.2	69.5	71.7	70.4	68.6	67.4	70.6	70.2
67-74	9.3	11.4	11.6	11.7	10.9	11.2	13.3	11.2
Females	68.8	69.2	68.4	69.3	69.6	69.3	69.6	70.3
16-19	52.0	50.6	43.3	52.9	55.3	50.6	51.1	55.0
20-24	69.0	70.1	65.9	71.5	72.3	70.7	67.5	73.6
25-29	80.9	79.6	77.8	79.5	80.5	80.4	78.3	79.2
30-39	83.5	84.3	83.5	84.2	84.4	85.3	84.3	83.9
40-54	84.2	83.8	84.5	83.7	83.8	83.3	84.2	84.5
55-66	56.7	59.2	60.5	59.1	58.4	58.6	61.3	60.8
67-74	4.8	4.8	5.8	4.3	3.9	4.9	7.4	7.8

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