LABOUR FORCE SURVEY, 2nd Qu. 2005
5	Persons in the labour force by age and sex. 1000 and as per cent of all in each group

	Annual average		2004				2005
	2003	2004	1st quarter	2nd quarter	3rd quarter	4th quarter	1st quarter	2nd quarter
	1000
Total	2 375	2 382	2 362	2 394	2 401	2 371	2 378	2 403
16-19	106	108	93	106	119	113	92	109
20-24	202	199	194	207	203	193	187	202
25-29	245	239	235	239	241	241	234	236
30-39	608	608	603	611	612	608	599	599
40-54	813	820	818	818	823	820	833	833
55-66	377	384	393	389	380	375	407	399
67-74	23	23	26	25	23	20	25	25
Males	1 259	1 263	1 256	1 267	1 271	1 257	1 262	1 275
16-19	52	54	44	51	62	59	46	54
20-24	106	105	104	109	104	102	101	107
25-29	130	125	123	125	126	126	122	122
30-39	324	324	324	326	323	323	318	320
40-54	429	432	431	431	434	431	439	437
55-66	205	209	213	210	207	204	221	219
67-74	13	14	16	15	14	12	15	15
Females	1 116	1 119	1 106	1 127	1 130	1 114	1 116	1 128
16-19	54	54	49	55	57	54	47	55
20-24	96	95	90	98	99	92	86	95
25-29	115	114	112	114	115	115	112	114
30-39	284	284	279	285	289	285	281	279
40-54	385	388	387	387	389	389	394	395
55-66	172	175	180	178	173	171	186	180
67-74	10	9	9	10	9	8	10	10
	Per cent
Total	72.9	72.6	71.9	73.0	73.2	72.3	71.8	72.6
16-19	48.5	47.6	41.3	46.7	52.5	49.8	39.4	46.4
20-24	73.8	73.1	71.2	76.0	74.4	70.7	68.5	74.1
25-29	82.8	82.8	81.7	82.9	83.4	83.2	82.2	82.7
30-39	87.1	87.5	86.8	87.9	88.1	87.3	86.9	86.9
40-54	86.7	86.7	86.5	86.5	87.0	86.8	87.1	87.1
55-66	65.2	64.4	65.9	65.2	63.8	62.6	65.4	64.1
67-74	9.1	9.1	9.8	9.7	8.8	8.1	10.0	10.1
Males	76.7	76.3	75.8	76.6	76.9	76.0	75.5	76.4
16-19	46.4	45.8	37.7	43.2	52.6	49.7	37.7	44.6
20-24	76.6	75.4	75.0	78.4	74.9	73.4	72.6	77.1
25-29	86.6	86.8	85.3	87.0	87.7	87.0	86.2	86.4
30-39	91.2	91.4	91.2	92.0	91.3	91.1	90.3	91.0
40-54	90.1	90.0	90.0	89.8	90.5	89.7	90.4	90.0
55-66	70.5	69.8	71.2	70.3	69.4	68.2	70.9	70.2
67-74	11.0	12.0	13.3	12.6	11.6	10.6	12.3	12.7
Females	69.1	68.8	68.0	69.3	69.4	68.4	68.0	68.7
16-19	50.8	49.5	45.2	50.5	52.3	50.0	41.2	48.3
20-24	70.9	70.6	67.2	73.5	73.9	67.8	64.3	70.9
25-29	78.9	78.9	78.1	78.9	79.2	79.4	78.3	79.1
30-39	82.9	83.4	82.1	83.6	84.7	83.4	83.4	82.5
40-54	83.3	83.3	82.9	83.0	83.4	83.7	83.7	84.1
55-66	59.9	58.9	60.5	60.1	58.2	57.0	59.8	57.9
67-74	7.5	6.5	6.8	7.1	6.4	5.9	7.8	7.8

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