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
	2nd quarter 2015			2nd quarter 2016			Change last twelve months
	Both sexes	Males	Females	Both sexes	Males	Females	2nd quarter 2015 - 2nd quarter 2016
	Both sexes	Males	Females	Both sexes	Males	Females	Both sexes	Males	Females
¹Non-residents included.
²Turkey is included.
Absolute figures
Participants, total	13 584	7 073	6 511	18 712	9 924	8 788	5 128	2 851	2 277
Non-immigrant population¹	8 012	4 735	3 277	10 669	6 585	4 084	2 657	1 850	807
Immigrants, total	5 572	2 338	3 234	8 043	3 339	4 704	2 471	1 001	1 470
The Nordic countries	131	83	48	210	127	83	79	44	35
Western Europe else	233	112	121	287	145	142	54	33	21
EU countries in Eastern Europe	876	310	566	1 518	537	981	642	227	415
Eastern Europe else	587	203	384	721	236	485	134	33	101
North-America and Oceania	21	12	9	51	27	24	30	15	15
Asia²	2 061	783	1 278	2 898	1 072	1 826	837	289	548
Africa	1 428	765	663	2 019	1 089	930	591	324	267
South- and Central-Amerika	235	70	165	339	106	233	104	36	68

Per cent
Participants, total	0.3	0.4	0.3	0.5	0.5	0.5	0.2	0.1	0.2
Non-immigrant population¹	0.2	0.3	0.2	0.3	0.4	0.3	0.1	0.1	0.1
Immigrants, total	0.9	0.7	1.1	1.3	1.0	1.6	0.4	0.3	0.5
The Nordic countries	0.2	0.2	0.2	0.3	0.4	0.3	0.1	0.2	0.1
Western Europe else	0.4	0.3	0.5	0.5	0.4	0.5	0.1	0.1	0.0
EU countries in Eastern Europe	0.5	0.3	0.9	0.9	0.5	1.5	0.4	0.2	0.6
Eastern Europe else	1.2	0.9	1.3	1.4	1.0	1.6	0.2	0.1	0.3
North-America and Oceania	0.2	0.2	0.2	0.5	0.5	0.5	0.3	0.3	0.3
Asia²	1.2	1.0	1.3	1.6	1.3	1.8	0.4	0.3	0.5
Africa	2.0	1.9	2.0	2.6	2.5	2.7	0.6	0.6	0.7
South- and Central-Amerika	1.2	0.8	1.4	1.7	1.3	2.0	0.5	0.5	0.6