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 February 2007 and 2008

2 Participants on ordinary labour market schemes (job programmes), by immigrant background, region of birth and sex. By the end of February 2007 and 2008. Absolute numbers and in per cent of persons aged 16 to 74 years
	Februar 2007			Februar 2008

	In total	Males	Females	In total	Males	Females

Participants, total	11 846	6 054	5 792	11 550	5 748	5 802

Non-immigrant population and descendants	7 536	4 054	3 482	7 066	3 882	3 184

First generation immigrants, total	4 310	2 000	2 310	4 484	1 866	2 618
The Nordic countries	109	46	63	98	46	52
Western Europe else	88	44	44	109	56	53
EU countries in Eastern Europe	123	22	101	147	24	123
Eastern Europe else	755	293	462	679	228	451
North America and Oceania	25	11	14	23	8	15
Asia¹	2 045	915	1 130	2 119	793	1 326
Africa	1 014	612	402	1 147	662	485
South and Central America	151	57	94	162	49	113

	Per cent
Participants, total	0.3	0.4	0.3	0.3	0.3	0.3

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

First generation immigrants, total	1.4	1.3	1.5	1.3	1.0	1.6
The Nordic countries	0.2	0.2	0.3	0.2	0.2	0.2
Western Europe else	0.3	0.2	0.3	0.3	0.2	0.3
EU countries in Eastern Europe	0.4	0.1	0.8	0.3	0.1	0.8
Eastern Europe else	2.1	1.8	2.3	1.8	1.3	2.1
North America and Oceania	0.3	0.3	0.4	0.3	0.2	0.4
Asia¹	1.9	1.8	2.0	1.8	1.4	2.2
Africa	3.0	3.3	2.7	3.1	3.3	2.9
South and Central America	1.2	1.1	1.3	1.2	0.9	1.5

¹	Turkey is included.