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 2014			1st quarter 2015			Change last twelve months
	Both sexes	Males	Females	Both sexes	Males	Females	1st quarter 2014 - 1st quarter 2015
	Both sexes	Males	Females	Both sexes	Males	Females	Both sexes	Males	Females
¹Non-residents included.
²Turkey is included.
Absolute figures
Participants, total	18 258	8 983	9 275	13 329	7 067	6 262	-4 929	-1 916	-3 013
Non-immigrant population¹	10 165	5 796	4 369	7 625	4 608	3 017	-2 540	-1 188	-1 352
Immigrants, total	8 093	3 187	4 906	5 704	2 459	3 245	-2 389	-728	-1 661
The Nordic countries	171	95	76	137	88	49	-34	-7	-27
Western Europe else	292	146	146	231	114	117	-61	-32	-29
EU countries in Eastern Europe	1 431	471	960	957	365	592	-474	-106	-368
Eastern Europe else	721	238	483	533	160	373	-188	-78	-110
North-America and Oceania	38	15	23	22	13	9	-16	-2	-14
Asia²	3 169	1 115	2 054	2 120	834	1 286	-1 049	-281	-768
Africa	1 982	1 023	959	1 499	823	676	-483	-200	-283
South- and Central-Amerika	289	84	205	205	62	143	-84	-22	-62

Per cent
Participants, total	0.5	0.5	0.5	0.3	0.4	0.3	-0.1	-0.1	-0.2
Non-immigrant population¹	0.3	0.4	0.3	0.2	0.3	0.2	-0.1	-0.1	-0.1
Immigrants, total	1.4	1.0	1.8	0.9	0.8	1.1	-0.5	-0.3	-0.7
The Nordic countries	0.3	0.3	0.3	0.2	0.3	0.2	-0.1	0.0	-0.1
Western Europe else	0.5	0.4	0.6	0.4	0.3	0.5	-0.1	-0.1	-0.2
EU countries in Eastern Europe	1.0	0.5	1.8	0.6	0.4	1.0	-0.4	-0.1	-0.8
Eastern Europe else	1.5	1.1	1.8	1.1	0.7	1.3	-0.4	-0.4	-0.5
North-America and Oceania	0.4	0.3	0.5	0.2	0.3	0.2	-0.2	0.0	-0.3
Asia²	1.9	1.5	2.3	1.2	1.0	1.4	-0.7	-0.4	-0.9
Africa	3.0	2.8	3.2	2.1	2.1	2.1	-0.9	-0.7	-1.1
South- and Central-Amerika	1.5	1.1	1.9	1.0	0.8	1.3	-0.5	-0.3	-0.6