LABOUR FORCE SURVEY, 3rd 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	2nd quarter	3rd quarter	4th quarter	1st quarter	2nd quarter	3rd quarter
	1000
Total	2 350	2 361	2 373	2 371	2 353	2 373	2 398	2 389
16-19	110	107	110	116	110	101	113	120
20-24	203	200	207	203	196	197	206	209
25-29	277	267	267	271	269	249	256	258
30-39	606	612	610	614	616	615	617	617
40-54	820	814	815	812	809	817	818	811
55-66	316	341	344	336	332	367	364	355
67-74	18	21	20	19	20	27	24	19
Males	1 258	1 260	1 269	1 263	1 249	1 258	1 271	1 268
16-19	57	54	55	59	58	48	55	60
20-24	111	106	111	106	100	107	108	109
25-29	147	144	144	146	144	132	137	139
30-39	324	327	325	328	328	327	332	332
40-54	435	430	431	429	428	430	430	427
55-66	173	185	188	182	178	197	195	191
67-74	12	14	14	13	14	16	14	11
Females	1 092	1 102	1 104	1 108	1 103	1 115	1 127	1 121
16-19	54	52	55	58	53	53	57	61
20-24	93	94	96	97	96	90	99	100
25-29	129	123	123	125	124	117	119	119
30-39	281	286	286	286	289	288	285	285
40-54	385	384	383	384	381	387	388	384
55-66	143	156	156	154	154	170	169	164
67-74	7	7	6	5	7	10	11	9
	Per cent
Total	73.4	73.5	73.8	73.8	73.3	73.4	74.1	73.9
16-19	52.0	50.2	51.8	54.7	51.7	47.1	52.6	56.1
20-24	74.2	73.5	76.1	74.6	71.7	72.2	75.6	76.4
25-29	85.0	84.8	85.0	86.1	85.3	82.3	84.4	84.9
30-39	88.4	88.7	88.4	88.9	89.2	88.5	88.7	88.6
40-54	87.7	87.4	87.4	87.2	86.9	87.6	87.6	86.9
55-66	62.9	64.4	64.8	63.5	63.0	66.0	65.5	63.8
67-74	6.9	7.8	7.8	7.2	7.8	10.2	9.4	7.5
Males	77.9	77.7	78.3	78.0	77.2	77.1	77.9	77.8
16-19	52.0	49.9	50.8	54.1	52.8	43.3	50.3	53.8
20-24	79.2	76.7	80.4	76.9	72.7	76.7	77.5	78.3
25-29	88.9	89.9	90.3	91.5	90.0	86.2	89.6	90.8
30-39	93.1	92.9	92.5	93.2	93.0	92.6	93.4	93.3
40-54	91.0	90.8	91.0	90.5	90.4	90.8	90.6	90.1
55-66	69.2	69.5	70.4	68.6	67.4	70.6	70.2	68.6
67-74	9.3	11.4	11.7	10.9	11.2	13.3	11.2	8.8
Females	68.8	69.2	69.3	69.6	69.3	69.6	70.3	69.9
16-19	52.0	50.6	52.9	55.3	50.6	51.1	55.0	58.4
20-24	69.0	70.1	71.5	72.3	70.7	67.5	73.6	74.4
25-29	80.9	79.6	79.5	80.5	80.4	78.3	79.2	78.9
30-39	83.5	84.3	84.2	84.4	85.3	84.3	83.9	83.7
40-54	84.2	83.8	83.7	83.8	83.3	84.2	84.5	83.5
55-66	56.7	59.2	59.1	58.4	58.6	61.3	60.8	59.0
67-74	4.8	4.8	4.3	3.9	4.9	7.4	7.8	6.3

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