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 2017			2nd quarter 2018			Change last twelve months
	Both sexes	Males	Females	Both sexes	Males	Females	2nd quarter 2017 - 2nd quarter 2018
	Both sexes	Males	Females	Both sexes	Males	Females	Both sexes	Males	Females
¹Non-residents included.
²Turkey is included.
Absolute figures
Participants, total	22 144	11 796	10 348	18 213	9 875	8 338	-3 931	-1 921	-2 010
Non-immigrant population¹	12 443	7 755	4 688	9 893	6 211	3 682	-2 550	-1 544	-1 006
Immigrants, total	9 701	4 041	5 660	8 320	3 664	4 656	-1 381	-377	-1 004
The Nordic countries	238	123	115	172	105	67	-66	-18	-48
Western Europe else	379	215	164	283	160	123	-96	-55	-41
EU countries in Eastern Europe	1 673	555	1 118	1 159	365	794	-514	-190	-324
Eastern Europe else	861	285	576	681	215	466	-180	-70	-110
North-America and Oceania	61	35	26	62	28	34	1	-7	8
Asia²	3 624	1 390	2 234	3 390	1 462	1 928	-234	72	-306
Africa	2 499	1 338	1 161	2 245	1 226	1 019	-254	-112	-142
South- and Central-Amerika	366	100	266	328	103	225	-38	3	-41

Per cent
Participants, total	0.6	0.6	0.5	0.5	0.5	0.4	-0.1	-0.1	-0.1
Non-immigrant population¹	0.4	0.5	0.3	0.3	0.4	0.2	-0.1	-0.1	-0.1
Immigrants, total	1.5	1.2	1.8	1.2	1.0	1.4	-0.3	-0.2	-0.4
The Nordic countries	0.4	0.4	0.4	0.3	0.3	0.2	-0.1	-0.1	-0.2
Western Europe else	0.6	0.6	0.6	0.4	0.4	0.5	-0.2	-0.2	-0.1
EU countries in Eastern Europe	1.0	0.5	1.7	0.7	0.3	1.2	-0.3	-0.2	-0.5
Eastern Europe else	1.6	1.2	1.9	1.2	0.9	1.5	-0.4	-0.3	-0.4
North-America and Oceania	0.6	0.6	0.5	0.6	0.5	0.6	0.0	-0.1	0.1
Asia²	1.8	1.5	2.1	1.6	1.5	1.7	-0.2	0.0	-0.4
Africa	3.1	3.0	3.2	2.7	2.7	2.7	-0.4	-0.3	-0.5
South- and Central-Amerika	1.8	1.2	2.2	1.5	1.2	1.8	-0.3	0.0	-0.4