Table 2 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 16 to 74 years. By the end of May 2005 and 2006

2	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 16 to 74 years. By the end of May 2005 and 2006

	May 2005			May 2006

	In total	Males	Females	In total	Males	Females

Participants, total	17 185	8 955	8 230	11 820	6 119	5 701

Non-immigrants and descendants¹	12 213	6 634	5 579	8 121	4 389	3 732

First generation immigrants, total	4 972	2 321	2 651	3 699	1 730	1 969
The Nordic countries	167	76	91	94	40	54
Western Europe else	130	67	63	97	60	37
New EU countries in Eastern Europe	109	20	89	74	12	62
Eastern Europe else	907	350	557	675	252	423
North America and Oceania	39	24	15	19	12	7
Asia²	2 391	1 057	1 334	1 792	791	1 001
Africa	1 015	641	374	792	511	281
South and Central America	214	86	128	156	52	104

	Per cent
Participants, total	0.5	0.5	0.5	0.4	0.4	0.3

Non-immigrants and descendants¹	0.4	0.4	0.4	0.3	0.3	0.2

First generation immigrants, total	1.8	1.7	1.9	1.3	1.2	1.4
The Nordic countries	0.4	0.4	0.4	0.2	0.2	0.2
Western Europe else	0.4	0.4	0.5	0.3	0.3	0.3
New EU countries in Eastern Europe	0.8	0.4	1.2	0.4	0.1	0.7
Eastern Europe else	2.6	2.3	2.9	1.8	1.6	2.0
North America and Oceania	0.6	0.7	0.4	0.3	0.3	0.2
Asia²	2.4	2.2	2.6	1.7	1.6	1.8
Africa	3.4	3.8	2.9	2.5	2.9	2.0
South and Central America	1.9	1.7	2.1	1.3	1.0	1.6

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