Table

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
	1st quarter 2013			1st quarter 2014			Change last twelve months
	Both sexes	Males	Females	Both sexes	Males	Females	1st quarter 2013 - 1st quarter 2014
	Both sexes	Males	Females	Both sexes	Males	Females	Both sexes	Males	Females
¹Non-residents included.
²Turkey is included.
Absolute figures
Participants, total	18 403	8 947	9 456	18 258	8 982	9 276	-145	35	-180
Non-immigrant population¹	10 241	5 863	4 378	10 292	5 867	4 425	51	4	47
Immigrants, total	8 162	3 084	5 078	7 966	3 115	4 851	-196	31	-227
The Nordic countries	208	107	101	164	88	76	-44	-19	-25
Western Europe else	288	133	155	281	138	143	-7	5	-12
EU countries in Eastern Europe	1 463	445	1 018	1 362	440	922	-101	-5	-96
Eastern Europe else	805	239	566	730	240	490	-75	1	-76
North-America and Oceania	42	16	26	38	15	23	-4	-1	-3
Asia²	3 242	1 094	2 148	3 145	1 102	2 043	-97	8	-105
Africa	1 832	969	863	1 960	1 008	952	128	39	89
South- and Central-Amerika	282	81	201	286	84	202	4	3	1

Per cent
Participants, total	0.5	0.5	0.5	0.5	0.5	0.5	0.0	0.0	0.0
Non-immigrant population¹	0.3	0.4	0.3	0.3	0.4	0.3	0.0	0.0	0.0
Immigrants, total	1.5	1.1	2.0	1.4	1.0	1.8	-0.1	-0.1	-0.2
The Nordic countries	0.3	0.3	0.3	0.3	0.3	0.3	-0.1	-0.1	-0.1
Western Europe else	0.5	0.4	0.7	0.5	0.4	0.6	0.0	0.0	-0.1
EU countries in Eastern Europe	1.2	0.6	2.2	1.0	0.5	1.8	-0.2	-0.1	-0.5
Eastern Europe else	1.6	1.1	2.0	1.4	1.1	1.7	-0.2	0.0	-0.3
North-America and Oceania	0.4	0.3	0.6	0.4	0.3	0.5	-0.1	0.0	-0.1
Asia²	2.0	1.5	2.5	1.9	1.4	2.3	-0.1	0.0	-0.2
Africa	3.1	3.0	3.1	2.9	2.8	3.2	-0.1	-0.2	0.0
South- and Central-Amerika	1.6	1.1	1.9	1.5	1.1	1.9	-0.1	0.0	-0.1