Table 1 Registered unemployed by immigrant background, region of birth and sex. In absolute figures and in per cent of the labour force. By the end of May 2005 and 2006

1	Registered unemployed, by immigrant background, region of birth and sex. In absolute figures and in per cent of the labour force. By the end of May 2005 and 2006

	May 2005			May 2006

	In total	Males	Females	In total	Males	Females

Registered unemployed, total	78 320	43 390	34 930	60 595	32 035	28 560

Non-immigrants and descendants¹	63 235	34 812	28 423	47 479	24 997	22 482

First generation immigrants, total	15 085	8 578	6 507	13 116	7 038	6 078
The Nordic countries	1 201	709	492	946	527	419
Western Europe else	837	562	275	583	350	233
New EU countries in Eastern Europe	408	127	281	402	127	275
Eastern Europe else	2 303	1 121	1 182	2 116	936	1 180
North America and Oceania	185	93	92	151	84	67
Asia²	6 878	3 808	3 070	5 961	3 142	2 819
Africa	2 528	1 773	755	2 341	1 582	759
South and Central America	745	385	360	616	290	326

	Per cent
Registered unemployed, total	3.3	3.4	3.1	2.5	2.5	2.5

Non-immigrants and descendants¹	2.9	3.0	2.7	2.1	2.1	2.1

First generation immigrants, total	9.0	9.4	8.5	7.3	7.2	7.5
The Nordic countries	3.6	4.3	2.9	2.8	3.2	2.5
Western Europe else	3.9	4.1	3.4	2.5	2.4	2.7
New EU countries in Eastern Europe	4.6	3.4	5.6	3.4	2.0	4.9
Eastern Europe else	10.6	10.5	10.6	8.9	8.3	9.6
North America and Oceania	4.5	4.2	4.9	3.6	3.7	3.4
Asia¹	12.2	12.1	12.4	10.0	9.5	10.7
Africa	17.4	18.7	14.8	14.9	15.5	13.5
South and Central America	10.1	10.4	9.9	8.0	7.5	8.4

¹	Norwegian born to foreign born parents.
²	Turkey is included.