LABOUR FORCE SURVEY, 2nd Qu. 2002
13	Unemployed persons by sex and age (LFS). 1000 and per cent

Age. Year	Annual average		2001				2002
	2000	2001	1st quarter	2nd quarter	3rd quarter	4th quarter	1st quarter	2nd quarter
	1000
Total	81	84	87	84	86	78	97	95
16-24	32	33	31	36	33	30	36	40
25-54	44	46	47	43	48	44	53	49
55-74	5	6	8	6	5	5	7	5
Males	46	46	50	47	44	43	54	51
16-24	17	17	17	18	17	17	19	22
25-54	26	25	28	25	24	23	31	27
55-74	3	3	5	4	2	3	4	2
Females	35	38	37	37	43	35	42	44
16-24	15	15	15	18	16	13	17	19
25-54	18	20	19	18	24	20	22	22
55-74	2	2	3	2	2	2	3	3
	Per cent
Total	3.4	3.6	3.7	3.6	3.6	3.3	4.1	4.0
16-24	10.2	10.6	11.0	11.4	10.4	9.8	12.2	12.7
25-54	2.6	2.7	2.8	2.5	2.9	2.6	3.2	2.9
55-74	1.5	1.6	2.1	1.5	1.3	1.3	1.8	1.3
Males	3.6	3.7	4.0	3.7	3.5	3.5	4.3	4.0
16-24	9.9	10.8	11.0	11.1	10.4	10.8	12.5	13.4
25-54	2.9	2.8	3.2	2.8	2.7	2.6	3.5	3.0
55-74	1.8	1.7	2.3	1.8	1.2	1.5	1.8	1.2
Females	3.2	3.4	3.4	3.4	3.8	3.2	3.8	3.9
16-24	10.6	10.4	11.0	11.7	10.3	8.7	11.8	11.9
25-54	2.2	2.6	2.4	2.2	3.1	2.6	2.8	2.8
55-74	1.1	1.4	1.9	1.2	1.5	1.0	1.9	1.5

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