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 2011			4th quarter 2012			Change last twelve months
	Both sexes	Males	Females	Both sexes	Males	Females	4th quarter 2011 - 4th quarter 2012
	Both sexes	Males	Females	Both sexes	Males	Females	Both sexes	Males	Females
¹Non-residents included.
²Turkey is included.
Absolute figures
Participants, total	19 008	9 375	9 633	18 500	8 922	9 578	-508	-453	-55
Non-immigrant population¹	10 690	6 122	4 568	10 051	5 705	4 346	-639	-417	-222
Immigrants, total	8 318	3 253	5 065	8 449	3 217	5 232	131	-36	167
The Nordic countries	190	108	82	211	104	107	21	-4	25
Western Europe else	268	136	132	277	144	133	9	8	1
EU countries in Eastern Europe	1 296	442	854	1 412	412	1 000	116	-30	146
Eastern Europe else	847	306	541	841	269	572	-6	-37	31
North-America and Oceania	33	16	17	36	14	22	3	-2	5
Asia²	3 539	1 246	2 293	3 429	1 177	2 252	-110	-69	-41
Africa	1 821	919	902	1 915	1 001	914	94	82	12
South- and Central-Amerika	324	80	244	328	96	232	4	16	-12

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	1.7	1.3	2.2	1.6	1.1	2.1	-0.1	-0.1	-0.1
The Nordic countries	0.3	0.4	0.3	0.3	0.3	0.4	0.0	0.0	0.1
Western Europe else	0.5	0.4	0.6	0.5	0.4	0.6	0.0	0.0	0.0
EU countries in Eastern Europe	1.3	0.7	2.3	1.2	0.5	2.3	-0.1	-0.2	0.0
Eastern Europe else	1.8	1.5	2.1	1.7	1.3	2.1	-0.1	-0.2	0.0
North-America and Oceania	0.4	0.3	0.4	0.4	0.3	0.5	0.0	-0.1	0.1
Asia²	2.4	1.8	2.9	2.2	1.6	2.7	-0.2	-0.2	-0.2
Africa	3.5	3.3	3.8	3.3	3.2	3.4	-0.2	-0.1	-0.4
South- and Central-Amerika	2.0	1.2	2.5	1.9	1.4	2.3	-0.1	0.2	-0.2