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 2016			2nd quarter 2017			Change last twelve months
	Both sexes	Males	Females	Both sexes	Males	Females	2nd quarter 2016 - 2nd quarter 2017
	Both sexes	Males	Females	Both sexes	Males	Females	Both sexes	Males	Females
¹Non-residents included.
²Turkey is included.
Absolute figures
Participants, total	18 712	9 924	8 788	22 144	11 796	10 348	3 432	1 872	1 560
Non-immigrant population¹	10 668	6 585	4 083	12 445	7 757	4 688	1 777	1 172	605
Immigrants, total	8 044	3 339	4 705	9 699	4 039	5 660	1 655	700	955
The Nordic countries	208	126	82	240	124	116	32	-2	34
Western Europe else	287	145	142	380	216	164	93	71	22
EU countries in Eastern Europe	1 518	537	981	1 673	555	1 118	155	18	137
Eastern Europe else	723	237	486	861	285	576	138	48	90
North-America and Oceania	51	27	24	61	35	26	10	8	2
Asia²	2 899	1 072	1 827	3 621	1 387	2 234	722	315	407
Africa	2 019	1 089	930	2 497	1 337	1 160	478	248	230
South- and Central-Amerika	339	106	233	366	100	266	27	-6	33

Per cent
Participants, total	0.5	0.5	0.5	0.6	0.6	0.5	0.1	0.1	0.0
Non-immigrant population¹	0.3	0.4	0.3	0.4	0.5	0.3	0.1	0.1	0.0
Immigrants, total	1.3	1.0	1.6	1.5	1.2	1.8	0.2	0.2	0.2
The Nordic countries	0.3	0.4	0.3	0.4	0.4	0.4	0.1	0.0	0.1
Western Europe else	0.5	0.4	0.5	0.6	0.6	0.6	0.1	0.2	0.1
EU countries in Eastern Europe	0.9	0.5	1.5	1.0	0.5	1.7	0.1	0.0	0.2
Eastern Europe else	1.4	1.0	1.6	1.6	1.2	1.9	0.2	0.2	0.3
North-America and Oceania	0.5	0.5	0.5	0.6	0.6	0.5	0.1	0.1	0.0
Asia²	1.6	1.3	1.8	1.8	1.5	2.1	0.2	0.2	0.3
Africa	2.6	2.5	2.7	3.1	3.0	3.2	0.5	0.5	0.5
South- and Central-Amerika	1.7	1.3	2.0	1.8	1.2	2.2	0.1	-0.1	0.2