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
	4th quarter 2013			4th quarter 2014			Change last twelve months
	Both sexes	Males	Females	Both sexes	Males	Females	4th quarter 2013 - 4th quarter 2014
	Both sexes	Males	Females	Both sexes	Males	Females	Both sexes	Males	Females
¹Non-residents included.
²Turkey is included.
Absolute figures
Participants, total	18 032	8 756	9 276	12 683	6 617	6 066	-5 349	-2 139	-3 210
Non-immigrant population¹	9 813	5 558	4 255	7 337	4 338	2 999	-2 476	-1 220	-1 256
Immigrants, total	8 219	3 198	5 021	5 346	2 279	3 067	-2 873	-919	-1 954
The Nordic countries	158	88	70	136	78	58	-22	-10	-12
Western Europe else	292	125	167	202	98	104	-90	-27	-63
EU countries in Eastern Europe	1 384	417	967	860	353	507	-524	-64	-460
Eastern Europe else	757	267	490	529	157	372	-228	-110	-118
North-America and Oceania	34	14	20	25	13	12	-9	-1	-8
Asia²	3 285	1 141	2 144	1 991	737	1 254	-1 294	-404	-890
Africa	1 994	1 049	945	1 390	775	615	-604	-274	-330
South- and Central-Amerika	315	97	218	213	68	145	-102	-29	-73

Per cent
Participants, total	0.5	0.5	0.5	0.3	0.3	0.3	-0.1	-0.1	-0.2
Non-immigrant population¹	0.3	0.3	0.3	0.2	0.3	0.2	-0.1	-0.1	-0.1
Immigrants, total	1.5	1.1	1.9	0.9	0.7	1.1	-0.6	-0.4	-0.8
The Nordic countries	0.3	0.3	0.2	0.2	0.2	0.2	0.0	0.0	0.0
Western Europe else	0.5	0.4	0.7	0.3	0.3	0.4	-0.2	-0.1	-0.3
EU countries in Eastern Europe	1.0	0.5	1.9	0.6	0.4	0.9	-0.4	-0.1	-1.0
Eastern Europe else	1.6	1.3	1.8	1.1	0.7	1.3	-0.5	-0.6	-0.5
North-America and Oceania	0.3	0.3	0.4	0.2	0.2	0.2	-0.1	0.0	-0.2
Asia²	2.0	1.5	2.4	1.2	0.9	1.4	-0.8	-0.6	-1.1
Africa	3.1	3.0	3.2	2.0	2.0	2.0	-1.1	-1.0	-1.3
South- and Central-Amerika	1.7	1.3	2.0	1.1	0.9	1.3	-0.6	-0.4	-0.7