LABOUR FORCE SURVEY, 3rd Qu. 2003
5	Persons in the labour force by age and sex. 1000 and as per cent of all in each group

	Annual average		2002			2003
	2001	2002	2nd quarter	3rd quarter	4th quarter	1st quarter	2nd quarter	3rd quarter
	1000
Total	2 361	2 378	2 398	2 389	2 354	2 366	2 386	2 390
16-19	107	112	113	120	112	94	107	115
20-24	200	203	206	209	199	196	209	205
25-29	267	255	256	258	257	239	244	250
30-39	612	616	617	617	613	608	609	609
40-54	814	813	818	811	805	816	815	812
55-66	341	359	364	355	349	388	376	376
67-74	21	22	24	19	19	25	25	23
Males	1 260	1 262	1 271	1 268	1 251	1 256	1 267	1 264
16-19	54	55	55	60	55	43	53	58
20-24	106	107	108	109	105	106	110	106
25-29	144	136	137	139	135	126	131	134
30-39	327	330	332	332	330	327	326	322
40-54	430	428	430	427	426	430	428	427
55-66	185	193	195	191	190	210	205	205
67-74	14	12	14	11	9	13	14	13
Females	1 102	1 116	1 127	1 121	1 103	1 109	1 120	1 126
16-19	52	57	57	61	57	50	54	58
20-24	94	96	99	100	94	90	99	100
25-29	123	119	119	119	121	113	114	116
30-39	286	285	285	285	283	281	284	287
40-54	384	384	388	384	379	385	387	385
55-66	156	165	169	164	159	178	171	171
67-74	7	10	11	9	9	11	12	9
	Per cent
Total	73.5	73.5	74.1	73.9	72.8	72.6	73.2	73.4
16-19	50.2	51.9	52.6	56.1	52.0	42.9	48.8	52.5
20-24	73.5	74.2	75.6	76.4	72.6	71.9	76.4	75.2
25-29	84.8	84.0	84.4	84.9	84.3	81.1	82.6	84.6
30-39	88.7	88.5	88.7	88.6	88.0	87.3	87.3	87.3
40-54	87.4	87.1	87.6	86.9	86.3	86.9	86.9	86.6
55-66	64.4	64.6	65.5	63.8	63.0	66.8	65.0	65.0
67-74	7.8	8.6	9.4	7.5	7.3	9.6	10.0	8.9
Males	77.7	77.4	77.9	77.8	76.8	76.4	77.1	77.0
16-19	49.9	49.4	50.3	53.8	50.3	39.1	47.5	51.4
20-24	76.7	77.0	77.5	78.3	75.5	76.6	79.4	76.5
25-29	89.9	88.5	89.6	90.8	87.6	84.5	86.6	89.1
30-39	92.9	93.0	93.4	93.3	92.7	92.0	91.6	90.7
40-54	90.8	90.4	90.6	90.1	90.0	90.2	90.3	89.7
55-66	69.5	69.5	70.2	68.6	68.4	71.6	70.4	70.5
67-74	11.4	10.3	11.2	8.8	7.8	11.2	11.4	11.1
Females	69.2	69.6	70.3	69.9	68.8	68.7	69.3	69.7
16-19	50.6	54.6	55.0	58.4	53.8	46.9	50.2	53.6
20-24	70.1	71.3	73.6	74.4	69.6	67.1	73.4	73.8
25-29	79.6	79.3	79.2	78.9	80.8	77.6	78.5	80.0
30-39	84.3	83.7	83.9	83.7	83.1	82.3	82.9	83.8
40-54	83.8	83.7	84.5	83.5	82.5	83.5	83.5	83.3
55-66	59.2	59.6	60.8	59.0	57.5	61.9	59.5	59.4
67-74	4.8	7.1	7.8	6.3	6.9	8.3	8.7	7.0

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