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 August 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 August 2005 and 2006

	August 2005			August 2006

	In total	Males	Females	In total	Males	Females

Participants, total	8 181	4 312	3 869	6 055	3 220	2 835

Non-immigrant population and descendants	5 361	2 962	2 399	3 695	2 050	1 645

First generation immigrants, total	2 820	1 350	1 470	2 360	1 170	1 190
The Nordic countries	96	43	53	64	29	35
Western Europe else	83	47	36	51	29	22
New EU countries in Eastern Europe	58	7	51	50	6	44
Eastern Europe else	458	181	277	404	180	224
North America and Oceania	24	16	8	13	9	4
Asia¹	1 405	623	782	1 192	568	624
Africa	578	388	190	492	312	180
South and Central America	118	45	73	94	37	57

	Per cent
Participants, total	0.2	0.3	0.2	0.2	0.2	0.2

Non-immigrant population and descendants	0.2	0.2	0.2	0.1	0.1	0.1

First generation immigrants, total	1.0	1.0	1.1	0.8	0.8	0.8
The Nordic countries	0.2	0.2	0.2	0.1	0.1	0.2
Western Europe else	0.3	0.3	0.3	0.2	0.2	0.2
New EU countries in Eastern Europe	0.4	0.1	0.6	0.3	0.1	0.5
Eastern Europe else	1.3	1.2	1.4	1.1	1.1	1.1
North America and Oceania	0.3	0.5	0.2	0.2	0.3	0.1
Asia¹	1.4	1.3	1.5	1.1	1.1	1.1
Africa	1.9	2.3	1.5	1.5	1.7	1.3
South and Central America	1.0	0.9	1.2	0.8	0.7	0.8

¹	Turkey is included.