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 15-74 years in each group. By the end of August 2008 and 2009

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 15-74 years in each group. By the end of August 2008 and 2009
	August 2008			August 2009			Changes, total 2008-2009

	In total	Males	Females	In total	Males	Females	Changes, total 2008-2009

Participants, total	7 665	3 972	3 693	11 790	6 244	5 546	4 125

Non-immigrant population¹	4 254	2 481	1 773	7 153	4 296	2 857	2 899

Immigrants registered as residents, total	3 411	1 491	1 920	4 637	1 948	2 689	1 226
The Nordic countries	65	31	34	124	73	51	59
Western Europe else	69	32	37	167	92	75	98
EU countries in Eastern Europe	119	27	92	305	119	186	186
Eastern Europe else	431	147	284	539	200	339	108
North America and Oceania	19	6	13	31	16	15	12
Asia²	1 599	631	968	2 087	773	1 314	488
Africa	958	561	397	1 181	606	575	223
South and Central America	151	56	95	203	69	134	52

	Per cent
Participants, total	0.2	0.2	0.2	0.3	0.3	0.3	0.1

Non-immigrant population¹	0.1	0.2	0.1	0.2	0.3	0.2	0.1

Immigrants registered as residents, total	0.9	0.8	1.1	1.2	1.0	1.4	0.3
The Nordic countries	0.1	0.1	0.1	0.2	0.3	0.2	0.1
Western Europe else	0.2	0.1	0.2	0.4	0.3	0.4	0.2
EU countries in Eastern Europe	0.2	0.1	0.5	0.5	0.3	0.8	0.3
Eastern Europe else	1.1	0.8	1.3	1.3	1.1	1.5	0.2
North America and Oceania	0.2	0.1	0.3	0.4	0.4	0.4	0.2
Asia²	1.3	1.1	1.5	1.6	1.3	1.9	0.3
Africa	2.5	2.7	2.3	2.8	2.7	3.0	0.3
South and Central America	1.1	1.0	1.2	1.4	1.1	1.6	0.3

¹	Non-residents included, 74 (2008) and 103 (2009).
²	Turkey is included.