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
	3rd quarter 2015			3rd quarter 2016			Change last twelve months
	Both sexes	Males	Females	Both sexes	Males	Females	3rd quarter 2015 - 3rd quarter 2016
	Both sexes	Males	Females	Both sexes	Males	Females	Both sexes	Males	Females
¹Non-residents included.
²Turkey is included.
Absolute figures
Participants, total	9 102	4 854	4 248	14 321	7 790	6 531	5 219	2 936	2 283
Non-immigrant population¹	5 109	3 088	2 021	8 064	5 069	2 995	2 955	1 981	974
Immigrants, total	3 993	1 766	2 227	6 257	2 721	3 536	2 264	955	1 309
The Nordic countries	108	72	36	165	99	66	57	27	30
Western Europe else	174	91	83	274	153	121	100	62	38
EU countries in Eastern Europe	712	269	443	1 069	387	682	357	118	239
Eastern Europe else	377	150	227	549	190	359	172	40	132
North-America and Oceania	16	13	3	33	20	13	17	7	10
Asia²	1 468	588	880	2 367	938	1 429	899	350	549
Africa	972	530	442	1 532	841	691	560	311	249
South- and Central-Amerika	166	53	113	268	93	175	102	40	62

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