Table 1 Registered unemployed, by immigrant background, region of birth and sex. In absolute numbers and in per cent of the labour force in each group. By the end of February 2007 and 2008

1 Registered unemployed, by immigrant background, region of birth and sex. By the end of February 2007 and 2008. In absolute numbers and in per cent of the labour force in each group
	February 2007			February 2008

	In total	Males	Females	In total	Males	Females

Registered unemployed, total	52 057	28 309	23 748	41 993	23 649	18 344

Non-immigrant population and descendants	40 495	22 047	18 448	31 901	18 057	13 844

First generation immigrants, total	11 562	6 262	5 300	10 092	5 592	4 500
The Nordic countries	754	423	331	638	364	274
Western Europe else	573	349	224	520	324	196
EU countries in Eastern Europe	580	229	351	782	454	328
Eastern Europe else	1 649	735	914	1 422	639	783
North America and Oceania	105	51	54	92	53	39
Asia¹	5 185	2 732	2 453	4 107	2 150	1 957
Africa	2 228	1 499	729	2 130	1 440	690
South and Central America	488	244	244	401	168	233

	Per cent
Registered unemployed, total	2.1	2.2	2.1	1.7	1.8	1.6

Non-immigrant population and descendants	1.8	1.9	1.7	1.4	1.5	1.3

First generation immigrants, total	5.9	5.8	6.1	4.5	4.4	4.6
The Nordic countries	2.2	2.5	1.9	1.8	2.0	1.6
Western Europe else	2.3	2.2	2.4	1.8	1.8	1.9
EU countries in Eastern Europe	3.1	2.1	4.4	2.4	2.0	3.2
Eastern Europe else	7.0	6.5	7.5	5.5	5.2	5.8
North America and Oceania	2.3	2.1	2.7	1.9	2.0	1.8
Asia¹	8.1	7.8	8.5	5.9	5.8	6.1
Africa	12.7	13.2	11.7	10.6	11.2	9.4
South and Central America	6.0	6.1	6.0	4.5	3.9	5.0

¹	Turkey is included.