LABOUR FORCE SURVEY, 1st Qu. 2003
5	Persons in the labour force by age and sex. 1000 and as per cent of all in each group

	Annual average		2001	2002				2003
	2001	2002	4th quarter	1st quarter	2nd quarter	3rd quarter	4th quarter	1st quarter
	1000
Total	2 361	2 378	2 353	2 373	2 398	2 389	2 354	2 366
16-19	107	112	110	101	113	120	112	94
20-24	200	203	196	197	206	209	199	196
25-29	267	255	269	249	256	258	257	239
30-39	612	616	616	615	617	617	613	608
40-54	814	813	809	817	818	811	805	816
55-66	341	359	332	367	364	355	349	388
67-74	21	22	20	27	24	19	19	25
Males	1 260	1 262	1 249	1 258	1 271	1 268	1 251	1 256
16-19	54	55	58	48	55	60	55	43
20-24	106	107	100	107	108	109	105	106
25-29	144	136	144	132	137	139	135	126
30-39	327	330	328	327	332	332	330	327
40-54	430	428	428	430	430	427	426	430
55-66	185	193	178	197	195	191	190	210
67-74	14	12	14	16	14	11	9	13
Females	1 102	1 116	1 103	1 115	1 127	1 121	1 103	1 109
16-19	52	57	53	53	57	61	57	50
20-24	94	96	96	90	99	100	94	90
25-29	123	119	124	117	119	119	121	113
30-39	286	285	289	288	285	285	283	281
40-54	384	384	381	387	388	384	379	385
55-66	156	165	154	170	169	164	159	178
67-74	7	10	7	10	11	9	9	11
	Per cent
Total	73.5	73.5	73.3	73.4	74.1	73.9	72.8	72.6
16-19	50.2	51.9	51.7	47.1	52.6	56.1	52.0	42.9
20-24	73.5	74.2	71.7	72.2	75.6	76.4	72.6	71.9
25-29	84.8	84.0	85.3	82.3	84.4	84.9	84.3	81.1
30-39	88.7	88.5	89.2	88.5	88.7	88.6	88.0	87.3
40-54	87.4	87.1	86.9	87.6	87.6	86.9	86.3	86.9
55-66	64.4	64.6	63.0	66.0	65.5	63.8	63.0	66.8
67-74	7.8	8.6	7.8	10.2	9.4	7.5	7.3	9.6
Males	77.7	77.4	77.2	77.1	77.9	77.8	76.8	76.4
16-19	49.9	49.4	52.8	43.3	50.3	53.8	50.3	39.1
20-24	76.7	77.0	72.7	76.7	77.5	78.3	75.5	76.6
25-29	89.9	88.5	90.0	86.2	89.6	90.8	87.6	84.5
30-39	92.9	93.0	93.0	92.6	93.4	93.3	92.7	92.0
40-54	90.8	90.4	90.4	90.8	90.6	90.1	90.0	90.2
55-66	69.5	69.5	67.4	70.6	70.2	68.6	68.4	71.6
67-74	11.4	10.3	11.2	13.3	11.2	8.8	7.8	11.2
Females	69.2	69.6	69.3	69.6	70.3	69.9	68.8	68.7
16-19	50.6	54.6	50.6	51.1	55.0	58.4	53.8	46.9
20-24	70.1	71.3	70.7	67.5	73.6	74.4	69.6	67.1
25-29	79.6	79.3	80.4	78.3	79.2	78.9	80.8	77.6
30-39	84.3	83.7	85.3	84.3	83.9	83.7	83.1	82.3
40-54	83.8	83.7	83.3	84.2	84.5	83.5	82.5	83.5
55-66	59.2	59.6	58.6	61.3	60.8	59.0	57.5	61.9
67-74	4.8	7.1	4.9	7.4	7.8	6.3	6.9	8.3

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