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 November 2006 and 2007

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 November 2006 and 2007
	November 2006			November 2007

	In total	Males	Females	In total	Males	Females

Participants, total	12 749	6 478	6 271	11 763	5 748	6 015

Non-immigrant population and descendants	8 195	4 305	3 890	6 965	3 717	3 248

First generation immigrants, total	4 554	2 173	2 381	4 798	2 031	2 767
The Nordic countries	121	57	64	98	47	51
Western Europe else	103	50	53	98	51	47
EU countries in Eastern Europe	131	27	104	153	23	130
Eastern Europe else	773	314	459	748	258	490
North America and Oceania	22	12	10	20	9	11
Asia¹	2 222	1 018	1 204	2 288	888	1 400
Africa	1 018	629	389	1 221	706	515
South and Central America	164	66	98	172	49	123

	Per cent
Participants, total	0.4	0.4	0.4	0.3	0.3	0.4

Non-immigrant population and descendants	0.3	0.3	0.3	0.2	0.2	0.2

First generation immigrants, total	1.5	1.5	1.6	1.4	1.2	1.7
The Nordic countries	0.3	0.3	0.3	0.2	0.2	0.2
Western Europe else	0.3	0.3	0.4	0.3	0.2	0.3
EU countries in Eastern Europe	0.5	0.2	0.9	0.4	0.1	0.9
Eastern Europe else	2.2	2.0	2.3	2.0	1.6	2.3
North America and Oceania	0.3	0.3	0.3	0.3	0.2	0.3
Asia¹	2.1	2.0	2.2	2.0	1.6	2.3
Africa	3.1	3.4	2.7	3.4	3.6	3.2
South and Central America	1.3	1.3	1.4	1.3	0.9	1.7

¹	Turkey is included.