Table 5 Participants on ordinary labour market schemes (job-programmes) by immigrant background, region of birth and county of residence. By the end of August 2007 and 2008. Absolute numbers and in per cent of persons aged 16 to 74 years in each group

5 Participants on ordinary labour market schemes (job-programmes) by immigrant background, region of birth and county of residence. By the end of August 2007 and 2008. Absolute numbers and in per cent of persons aged 16 to 74 years in each group
	August 2007							August 2008

	Participants, total	Non-immigrant population	Immigrants, total	Group 1¹	Group 2²	Participants, total	Non-immigrant population	Immigrants, total	Group 1¹	Group 2²

The whole country	6 554	3 660	2 894	189	2 705	7 665	4 248	3 417	282	3 135

Østfold	477	307	170	13	157	464	276	188	19	169
Akershus	610	301	309	18	291	680	349	331	27	304
Oslo	1 288	395	893	42	851	1 650	485	1 165	65	1 100
Hedmark	196	146	50	4	46	252	197	55	15	40
Oppland	171	108	63	4	59	220	154	66	4	62
Buskerud	377	224	153	9	144	573	326	247	18	229
Vestfold	391	246	145	4	141	371	232	139	19	120
Telemark	192	61	131	7	124	257	123	134	4	130
Aust-Agder	103	56	47	3	44	172	104	68	10	58
Vest-Agder	204	101	103	9	94	254	156	98	8	90
Rogaland	544	286	258	15	243	407	209	198	17	181
Hordaland	606	399	207	8	199	721	449	272	24	248
Sogn og Fjordane	33	20	13	1	12	91	68	23	3	20
Møre og Romsdal	198	144	54	10	44	238	173	65	7	58
Sør-Trøndelag	375	242	133	11	122	520	329	191	21	170
Nord-Trøndelag	129	96	33	6	27	172	126	46	1	45
Nordland	330	272	58	9	49	237	177	60	11	49
Troms Romsa	115	91	24	5	19	195	159	36	5	31
Finnmark Finnmárku	215	165	50	11	39	190	155	35	4	31

	Per cent
The whole country	0.2	0.1	0.9	0.2	1.4	0.2	0.1	0.9	0.2	1.5

Østfold	0.3	0.2	1.0	0.2	1.4	0.2	0.2	1.0	0.3	1.4
Akershus	0.2	0.1	0.7	0.1	1.3	0.2	0.1	0.7	0.1	1.2
Oslo	0.3	0.1	1.0	0.2	1.3	0.4	0.1	1.1	0.2	1.5
Hedmark	0.1	0.1	0.7	0.1	1.2	0.2	0.2	0.7	0.4	1.0
Oppland	0.1	0.1	0.9	0.1	1.5	0.2	0.1	0.9	0.1	1.5
Buskerud	0.2	0.1	0.8	0.1	1.3	0.3	0.2	1.2	0.2	1.9
Vestfold	0.2	0.2	1.1	0.1	2.0	0.2	0.2	1.0	0.3	1.6
Telemark	0.2	0.1	1.5	0.2	2.3	0.2	0.1	1.4	0.1	2.3
Aust-Agder	0.1	0.1	0.9	0.1	1.6	0.2	0.1	1.2	0.4	2.0
Vest-Agder	0.2	0.1	1.0	0.2	1.4	0.2	0.1	0.9	0.2	1.3
Rogaland	0.2	0.1	0.9	0.1	1.7	0.1	0.1	0.6	0.1	1.1
Hordaland	0.2	0.1	0.9	0.1	1.4	0.2	0.1	1.0	0.2	1.6
Sogn og Fjordane	0.0	0.0	0.3	0.1	0.6	0.1	0.1	0.5	0.1	1.0
Møre og Romsdal	0.1	0.1	0.6	0.2	0.9	0.1	0.1	0.6	0.1	1.1
Sør-Trøndelag	0.2	0.1	1.0	0.2	1.5	0.2	0.2	1.2	0.3	1.9
Nord-Trøndelag	0.1	0.1	0.9	0.4	1.4	0.2	0.1	1.1	0.0	2.2
Nordland	0.2	0.2	0.8	0.3	1.2	0.1	0.1	0.7	0.3	1.1
Troms Romsa	0.1	0.1	0.4	0.2	0.6	0.2	0.1	0.5	0.1	0.9
Finnmark Finnmárku	0.4	0.3	1.4	0.7	2.0	0.4	0.3	0.8	0.2	1.4

¹	EU/EFTA-countries, North - America, Australia and New Zealand.
²	Eastern Europe outside the EU, Asia(Turkey incl.), Africa, South and Central America and Oceania except Australia and New Zealand.

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