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 2019			3rd quarter 2020			Change last twelve months
	Both sexes	Males	Females	Both sexes	Males	Females	3rd quarter 2019 - 3rd quarter 2020
	Both sexes	Males	Females	Both sexes	Males	Females	Both sexes	Males	Females
¹Non-residents included.
²Turkey is included.
Absolute figures
Participants, total	11 261	6 124	5 137	10 605	5 614	4 991	-656	-510	-146
Non-immigrant population¹	6 224	3 740	2 484	5 804	3 445	2 359	-420	-295	-125
Immigrants, total	5 037	2 384	2 653	4 801	2 169	2 632	-236	-215	-21
The Nordic countries	112	58	54	118	57	61	6	-1	7
Western Europe else	186	107	79	182	113	69	-4	6	-10
EU countries in Eastern Europe	627	235	392	618	225	393	-9	-10	1
Eastern Europe else	404	122	282	415	102	313	11	-20	31
North-America and Oceania	22	14	8	27	12	15	5	-2	7
Asia²	2 183	1 070	1 113	2 099	982	1 117	-84	-88	4
Africa	1 347	740	607	1 143	621	522	-204	-119	-85
South and Central Amerika	156	38	118	199	57	142	43	19	24

Per cent
Participants, total	0.3	0.3	0.3	0.3	0.3	0.3	0.0	0.0	0.0
Non-immigrant population¹	0.2	0.2	0.2	0.2	0.2	0.1	0.0	0.0	-0.1
Immigrants, total	0.7	0.6	0.8	0.7	0.6	0.8	0.0	0.0	0.0
The Nordic countries	0.2	0.2	0.2	0.2	0.2	0.2	0.0	0.0	0.0
Western Europe else	0.3	0.3	0.3	0.3	0.3	0.2	0.0	0.0	-0.1
EU countries in Eastern Europe	0.3	0.2	0.6	0.3	0.2	0.5	0.0	0.0	-0.1
Eastern Europe else	0.7	0.5	0.8	0.7	0.4	0.9	0.0	-0.1	0.1
North-America and Oceania	0.2	0.2	0.1	0.2	0.2	0.3	0.0	0.0	0.2
Asia²	1.0	1.1	1.0	0.9	0.9	0.9	-0.1	-0.2	-0.1
Africa	1.5	1.6	1.5	1.3	1.3	1.3	-0.2	-0.3	-0.2
South and Central Amerika	0.7	0.4	0.9	0.9	0.6	1.0	0.2	0.2	0.1