Labour force survey. Education and training

2   Employees attending courses, by sex and age. 1 000 and per cent
Sex and age 2nd quarter 1997 2nd quarter 1998 2nd quarter 1999 2nd quarter 2000 2nd quarter 2001 2nd quarter 2002
  1 000
Total  221  227  229  208  222  209
16-29 years 35 36 39 33 38 36
30-39 years 69 71 70 64 68 60
40-45 years 95 94 94 84 88 85
55-59 years 15 16 18 18 22 18
60-   years 8 9 9 8 7 10
             
Males  118  119  122  105  119  107
16-29 years 18 20 24 16 23 19
30-39 years 38 39 39 33 35 32
40-45 years 48 46 46 41 44 41
55-59 years 8 9 9 9 12 10
60-   years 5 5 4 5 4 4
             
Females  104  108  106  103  103  102
16-29 years 16 16 14 17 15 17
30-39 years 32 33 31 31 33 28
40-54 years 46 48 47 43 43 44
55-59 years 7 7 9 9 10 8
60-   years 3 4 4 4 2 5
             
  Per cent
Total 11.6 11.6 11.6 10.5 11.2 10.4
16-29 years 8.1 8.3 9.3 8.1 9.8 9.2
30-39 years 13.3 13.3 12.9 12.0 12.5 11.0
40-54 years 13.4 13.1 12.8 11.5 12.0 11.7
55-59 years 10.4 10.9 10.9 10.4 11.3 9.0
60-   years 6.9 7.8 7.6 6.9 5.3 7.1
             
Males 11.6 11.5 11.8 10.0 11.3 10.2
16-29 years 7.7 8.3 10.5 7.1 10.7 8.9
30-39 years 13.5 13.6 13.6 11.7 12.3 11.1
40-54 years 13.3 12.6 12.4 10.9 11.7 11.2
55-59 years 11.5 11.5 10.4 10.4 11.8 9.9
60-   years 8.7 8.3 7.0 7.3 6.2 6.1
             
Females 11.6 11.7 11.4 11.0 11.1 10.7
16-29 years 8.7 8.4 7.7 9.3 8.7 9.8
30-39 years 13.1 13.0 12.1 12.2 12.7 10.8
40-54 years 13.5 13.7 13.2 12.0 12.3 12.2
55-59 years 9.4 10.2 11.5 10.3 10.6 8.0
60-   years 4.9 7.3 8.2 6.5 4.2 8.3

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