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
	4th quarter 2016			4th quarter 2017			Change last twelve months
	Both sexes	Males	Females	Both sexes	Males	Females	4th quarter 2016 - 4th quarter 2017
	Both sexes	Males	Females	Both sexes	Males	Females	Both sexes	Males	Females
¹Non-residents included.
²Turkey is included.
Absolute figures
Participants, total	20 331	10 573	9 758	20 502	10 772	9 730	171	199	-28
Non-immigrant population¹	11 200	6 912	4 288	11 188	6 858	4 330	-12	-54	42
Immigrants, total	9 131	3 661	5 470	9 314	3 914	5 400	183	253	-70
The Nordic countries	243	131	112	211	114	97	-32	-17	-15
Western Europe else	395	208	187	352	204	148	-43	-4	-39
EU countries in Eastern Europe	1 468	437	1 031	1 350	436	914	-118	-1	-117
Eastern Europe else	863	280	583	795	239	556	-68	-41	-27
North-America and Oceania	51	31	20	72	38	34	21	7	14
Asia²	3 416	1 240	2 176	3 662	1 420	2 242	246	180	66
Africa	2 330	1 226	1 104	2 526	1 357	1 169	196	131	65
South- and Central-Amerika	365	108	257	346	106	240	-19	-2	-17

Per cent
Participants, total	0.5	0.5	0.5	0.5	0.5	0.5	0.0	0.0	0.0
Non-immigrant population¹	0.3	0.4	0.3	0.3	0.4	0.3	0.0	0.0	0.0
Immigrants, total	1.4	1.1	1.8	1.4	1.1	1.7	0.0	0.0	-0.1
The Nordic countries	0.4	0.4	0.4	0.3	0.4	0.3	-0.1	0.0	-0.1
Western Europe else	0.6	0.6	0.7	0.5	0.5	0.6	-0.1	-0.1	-0.1
EU countries in Eastern Europe	0.9	0.4	1.6	0.8	0.4	1.4	-0.1	0.0	-0.2
Eastern Europe else	1.6	1.2	1.9	1.5	1.0	1.8	-0.1	-0.2	-0.1
North-America and Oceania	0.5	0.6	0.4	0.7	0.7	0.6	0.2	0.1	0.2
Asia²	1.8	1.4	2.1	1.8	1.5	2.1	0.0	0.1	0.0
Africa	2.9	2.8	3.1	3.1	3.0	3.2	0.2	0.2	0.1
South- and Central-Amerika	1.8	1.3	2.1	1.7	1.2	2.0	-0.1	-0.1	-0.1