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 2016			3rd quarter 2017			Change last twelve months
	Both sexes	Males	Females	Both sexes	Males	Females	3rd quarter 2016 - 3rd quarter 2017
	Both sexes	Males	Females	Both sexes	Males	Females	Both sexes	Males	Females
¹Non-residents included.
²Turkey is included.
Absolute figures
Participants, total	14 321	7 790	6 531	15 729	8 606	7 123	1 408	816	592
Non-immigrant population¹	8 062	5 068	2 994	8 855	5 625	3 230	793	557	236
Immigrants, total	6 259	2 722	3 537	6 874	2 981	3 893	615	259	356
The Nordic countries	165	99	66	171	102	69	6	3	3
Western Europe else	271	152	119	314	183	131	43	31	12
EU countries in Eastern Europe	1 069	387	682	1 074	358	716	5	-29	34
Eastern Europe else	551	190	361	619	206	413	68	16	52
North-America and Oceania	31	19	12	53	29	24	22	10	12
Asia²	2 370	940	1 430	2 649	1 070	1 579	279	130	149
Africa	1 533	842	691	1 710	941	769	177	99	78
South- and Central-Amerika	269	93	176	284	92	192	15	-1	16

Per cent
Participants, total	0.4	0.4	0.3	0.4	0.4	0.4	0.0	0.0	0.1
Non-immigrant population¹	0.2	0.3	0.2	0.3	0.3	0.2	0.1	0.0	0.0
Immigrants, total	1.0	0.8	1.2	1.0	0.8	1.2	0.0	0.0	0.0
The Nordic countries	0.3	0.3	0.2	0.3	0.3	0.2	0.0	0.0	0.0
Western Europe else	0.4	0.4	0.5	0.5	0.5	0.5	0.1	0.1	0.0
EU countries in Eastern Europe	0.6	0.4	1.1	0.6	0.3	1.1	0.0	-0.1	0.0
Eastern Europe else	1.0	0.8	1.2	1.1	0.9	1.3	0.1	0.1	0.1
North-America and Oceania	0.3	0.4	0.2	0.5	0.5	0.5	0.2	0.1	0.3
Asia²	1.3	1.1	1.4	1.3	1.1	1.5	0.0	0.0	0.1
Africa	1.9	1.9	2.0	2.1	2.1	2.1	0.2	0.2	0.1
South- and Central-Amerika	1.3	1.1	1.5	1.4	1.1	1.6	0.1	0.0	0.1