LABOUR FORCE SURVEY, 1st Qu. 2007
5	Persons in the labour force aged 15-74 by age and sex. 1 000 and as per cent of all in each group

	Annual average	2006				2007
	2006	1st quarter	2nd quarter	3rd quarter	4th quarter	1st quarter
	1000
Total	2 446	2 420	2 452	2 464	2 450	2 463
15-19	131	124	134	141	126	130
20-24	205	200	210	212	200	202
25-29	247	246	247	249	247	245
30-39	606	609	605	604	604	607
40-54	836	834	837	834	838	843
55-66	398	390	397	400	407	407
67-74	22	17	22	24	27	28
Males	1 296	1 284	1 298	1 305	1 298	1 300
15-19	64	60	65	68	62	62
20-24	108	107	111	111	104	107
25-29	130	129	129	131	131	129
30-39	320	322	319	321	319	319
40-54	439	438	440	439	441	443
55-66	220	217	221	219	224	221
67-74	14	11	14	15	17	18
Females	1 150	1 137	1 154	1 159	1 152	1 163
15-19	68	64	69	74	64	68
20-24	97	92	99	101	96	95
25-29	117	117	119	117	116	116
30-39	286	287	286	283	286	288
40-54	396	396	397	395	397	400
55-66	178	174	176	181	183	186
67-74	8	6	9	8	10	10
	Per cent
Total	72.0	71.6	72.3	72.4	71.7	71.9
15-19	43.2	41.4	44.1	46.3	40.9	42.3
20-24	74.6	72.5	76.6	77.0	72.1	72.0
25-29	85.7	85.6	85.5	86.2	85.5	84.9
30-39	87.9	88.0	87.8	87.8	87.9	88.5
40-54	86.8	87.2	87.1	86.5	86.6	86.7
55-66	63.5	62.9	63.4	63.3	64.4	64.4
67-74	9.0	6.9	8.9	9.5	10.7	10.9
Males	75.6	75.3	75.8	76.0	75.3	75.2
15-19	40.9	39.3	41.9	43.2	39.4	39.5
20-24	77.2	76.6	79.2	79.1	74.0	74.7
25-29	89.5	89.3	88.7	90.3	89.8	89.1
30-39	91.8	91.9	91.6	92.1	91.6	91.4
40-54	90.0	90.2	90.3	89.8	89.8	89.9
55-66	69.4	68.8	69.8	68.9	70.0	69.6
67-74	12.0	9.5	11.4	12.9	14.3	15.0
Females	68.3	67.8	68.7	68.8	68.1	68.6
15-19	45.6	43.6	46.4	49.6	42.6	45.2
20-24	71.8	68.3	73.9	74.8	70.2	69.2
25-29	81.8	81.8	82.3	82.2	81.1	80.6
30-39	83.8	83.9	83.9	83.4	84.1	85.4
40-54	83.5	84.1	83.7	83.1	83.3	83.5
55-66	57.5	56.8	56.9	57.7	58.7	59.3
67-74	6.2	4.5	6.7	6.4	7.3	7.2

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