Registered unemployed among immigrants (discontinued in Statistics Norway), Q4 2016

Participants on ordinary labour market schemes (job programmes), by immigrant background, region of birth and sex. Absolute numbers and in per cent of persons aged 15 to 74 years
	4th quarter 2015			4th quarter 2016			Change last twelve months
	Both sexes	Males	Females	Both sexes	Males	Females	4th quarter 2015 - 4th quarter 2016
	Both sexes	Males	Females	Both sexes	Males	Females	Both sexes	Males	Females
¹Non-residents included.
²Turkey is included.
Absolute figures
Participants, total	16 644	8 659	7 985	20 331	10 573	9 758	3 687	1 914	1 773
Non-immigrant population¹	9 436	5 628	3 808	11 203	6 914	4 289	1 767	1 286	481
Immigrants, total	7 208	3 031	4 177	9 128	3 659	5 469	1 920	628	1 292
The Nordic countries	191	113	78	245	132	113	54	19	35
Western Europe else	286	146	140	398	210	188	112	64	48
EU countries in Eastern Europe	1 297	496	801	1 470	437	1 033	173	-59	232
Eastern Europe else	687	226	461	862	280	582	175	54	121
North-America and Oceania	35	18	17	55	35	20	20	17	3
Asia²	2 625	961	1 664	3 408	1 234	2 174	783	273	510
Africa	1 771	970	801	2 326	1 223	1 103	555	253	302
South- and Central-Amerika	316	101	215	364	108	256	48	7	41

Per cent
Participants, total	0.4	0.4	0.4	0.5	0.5	0.5	0.1	0.1	0.1
Non-immigrant population¹	0.3	0.3	0.2	0.3	0.4	0.3	0.0	0.1	0.1
Immigrants, total	1.1	0.9	1.4	1.4	1.1	1.8	0.3	0.2	0.4
The Nordic countries	0.3	0.3	0.3	0.4	0.4	0.4	0.1	0.1	0.1
Western Europe else	0.5	0.4	0.5	0.6	0.6	0.7	0.1	0.2	0.2
EU countries in Eastern Europe	0.8	0.5	1.3	0.9	0.4	1.6	0.1	-0.1	0.3
Eastern Europe else	1.3	1.0	1.6	1.6	1.2	1.9	0.3	0.2	0.3
North-America and Oceania	0.3	0.3	0.3	0.5	0.6	0.4	0.2	0.3	0.1
Asia²	1.5	1.2	1.7	1.8	1.4	2.1	0.3	0.2	0.4
Africa	2.3	2.3	2.4	2.9	2.8	3.1	0.6	0.5	0.7
South- and Central-Amerika	1.6	1.2	1.8	1.8	1.3	2.2	0.2	0.1	0.4

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