LABOUR FORCE SURVEY, 1st Qu. 2005
14	Unemployed persons by duration of job search (LFS). 1000 and per cent

Duration of job search	Annual average		2003	2004				2005
	2003	2004	4th quarter	1st quarter	2nd quarter	3rd quarter	4th quarter	1st quarter
	1000
Total	107	106	98	107	111	111	97	110
1- 4 weeks	37	34	29	35	38	36	27	30
5-13 weeks	29	29	24	32	24	30	28	29
14-26 weeks	18	15	21	16	17	14	15	19
27-39 weeks	5	5	4	6	6	6	4	6
40-52 weeks	10	12	12	11	13	12	11	14
53 weeks and over	7	10	7	6	10	11	11	8
Unspecified	2	2	1	2	3	2	1	3
	Per cent
Total	100	100	100	100	100	100	100	100
1- 4 weeks	35	32	30	33	35	33	28	28
5-13 weeks	27	27	25	31	22	28	30	27
14-26 weeks	17	15	21	15	15	13	16	18
27-39 weeks	4	5	5	5	6	5	4	5
40-52 weeks	10	11	13	10	12	11	11	13
53 weeks and over	6	9	7	6	9	10	11	8
	Weeks
Average duration	18.5	21.2	20.9	18.0	21.6	22.1	23.3	21.9

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