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 May 2007 and 2008

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 May 2007 and 2008
	Mai 2007			Mai 2008

	In total	Males	Females	In total	Males	Females

Participants, total	11 984	6 064	5 920	13 003	6 554	6 449

Non-immigrant population and descendants	7 464	4 025	3 439	7 839	4 366	3 473

First generation immigrants, total	4 520	2 039	2 481	5 164	2 188	2 976
The Nordic countries	103	46	57	115	46	69
Western Europe else	99	57	42	132	65	67
EU countries in Eastern Europe	121	25	96	193	34	159
Eastern Europe else	744	270	474	739	255	484
North America and Oceania	15	7	8	27	8	19
Asia¹	2 144	910	1 234	2 393	932	1 461
Africa	1 108	666	442	1 353	783	570
South and Central America	186	58	128	212	65	147

	Per cent
Participants, total	0.4	0.4	0.4	0.4	0.4	0.4

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

First generation immigrants, total	1.4	1.3	1.6	1.5	1.2	1.7
The Nordic countries	0.2	0.2	0.2	0.2	0.2	0.3
Western Europe else	0.3	0.3	0.3	0.3	0.3	0.4
EU countries in Eastern Europe	0.4	0.1	0.8	0.4	0.1	0.9
Eastern Europe else	2.0	1.7	2.3	1.9	1.5	2.2
North America and Oceania	0.2	0.2	0.2	0.3	0.2	0.5
Asia¹	1.9	1.7	2.1	2.0	1.7	2.3
Africa	3.2	3.5	2.9	3.6	3.8	3.4
South and Central America	1.5	1.1	1.8	1.6	1.1	1.9

¹	Turkey is included.