LABOUR FORCE SURVEY, 3rd Qu. 2005
13	Unemployed persons by sex and age (LFS). 1000 and per cent

Age. Year	Annual average		2004			2005
	2003	2004	2nd quarter	3rd quarter	4th quarter	1st quarter	2nd quarter	3rd quarter
	1000
Total	107	106	111	111	97	110	116	117
16-24	36	36	42	36	31	33	44	38
25-54	65	65	63	69	60	70	65	72
55-74	6	6	6	6	5	8	8	7
Males	62	62	64	61	57	63	63	63
16-24	20	20	22	20	18	18	23	21
25-54	38	38	37	37	36	40	35	39
55-74	4	4	4	4	4	5	6	4
Females	45	45	47	50	40	47	53	54
16-24	16	16	20	16	13	15	21	17
25-54	26	27	25	32	25	30	30	33
55-74	2	2	2	2	2	3	2	3
	Per cent
Total	4.5	4.5	4.6	4.6	4.1	4.6	4.8	4.8
16-24	11.7	11.6	13.4	11.2	10.3	11.7	14.1	11.8
25-54	3.9	3.9	3.8	4.1	3.6	4.2	3.9	4.3
55-74	1.5	1.5	1.5	1.5	1.3	1.8	1.8	1.7
Males	4.9	4.9	5.0	4.8	4.6	5.0	5.0	5.0
16-24	12.5	12.5	14.0	12.1	11.2	12.3	14.1	12.6
25-54	4.3	4.3	4.2	4.2	4.1	4.6	4.0	4.4
55-74	1.7	1.8	1.9	1.9	1.7	2.0	2.4	1.7
Females	4.0	4.0	4.2	4.4	3.6	4.2	4.7	4.7
16-24	10.9	10.6	12.7	10.3	9.2	11.0	14.1	11.0
25-54	3.4	3.4	3.2	4.0	3.1	3.8	3.8	4.2
55-74	1.2	1.0	1.0	1.0	0.9	1.5	1.2	1.7

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