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 August 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 August 2005 and 2006

	August 2005			August 2006

	In total	Males	Females	I alt[In tota]l	Males	Females

Registered unemployed, total	88 058	45 068	42 990	65 733	32 177	33 556

Non-immigrant population and descendants	71 437	36 223	35 214	51 631	24 980	26 651

First generation immigrants, total	16 621	8 845	7 776	14 102	7 197	6 905
The Nordic countries	1 308	709	599	985	503	482
Western Europe else	873	538	335	652	400	252
New EU countries in Eastern Europe	463	133	330	447	120	327
Eastern Europe else	2 687	1 172	1 515	2 219	932	1 287
North America and Oceania	227	117	110	154	76	78
Asia¹	7 398	3 888	3 510	6 396	3 203	3 193
Africa	2 872	1 939	933	2 649	1 717	932
South and Central America	793	349	444	600	246	354

	Per cent
Registered unemployed, total	3.7	3.6	3.8	2.7	2.5	3.0

Non-immigrant population and descendants	3.2	3.1	3.4	2.3	2.1	2.6

First generation immigrants, total	9.8	9.6	10.0	7.8	7.2	8.4
The Nordic countries	4.0	4.4	3.6	3.0	3.1	2.9
Western Europe else	4.0	4.0	4.1	2.8	2.7	2.9
New EU countries in Eastern Europe	5.0	3.2	6.5	3.5	1.7	5.7
Eastern Europe else	12.0	10.8	13.2	9.3	8.2	10.4
North America and Oceania	5.5	5.2	5.8	3.7	3.3	4.1
Asia¹	13.0	12.2	13.8	10.6	9.6	11.8
Africa	19.2	20.0	17.4	16.0	16.1	15.6
South and Central America	10.6	9.4	11.8	7.6	6.4	8.9

¹	Turkey is included.