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
	1st quarter 2017			1st quarter 2018			Change last twelve months
	Both sexes	Males	Females	Both sexes	Males	Females	1st quarter 2017 - 1st quarter 2018
	Both sexes	Males	Females	Both sexes	Males	Females	Both sexes	Males	Females
¹Non-residents included.
²Turkey is included.
Absolute figures
Participants, total	21 571	11 432	10 139	20 193	10 752	9 441	-1 378	-680	-698
Non-immigrant population¹	12 188	7 604	4 584	10 893	6 733	4 160	-1 295	-871	-424
Immigrants, total	9 383	3 828	5 555	9 300	4 019	5 281	-83	191	-274
The Nordic countries	253	134	119	189	112	77	-64	-22	-42
Western Europe else	433	237	196	318	187	131	-115	-50	-65
EU countries in Eastern Europe	1 623	526	1 097	1 352	438	914	-271	-88	-183
Eastern Europe else	862	277	585	790	256	534	-72	-21	-51
North-America and Oceania	59	33	26	56	32	24	-3	-1	-2
Asia²	3 441	1 253	2 188	3 790	1 568	2 222	349	315	34
Africa	2 357	1 264	1 093	2 466	1 316	1 150	109	52	57
South- and Central-Amerika	355	104	251	339	110	229	-16	6	-22

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