Table 3 Registered unemployed, by region of birth and time of residence in Norway. By the end of August 2008 and 2009. Absolute figures and in per cent of persons in total aged 15-74 years in each group

3 Registered unemployed, by region of birth and time of residence in Norway. By the end of August 2008 and 2009. Absolute figures and in per cent of persons in total aged 15-74 years¹ in each group
	The whole population	Total	Immigrants

	The whole population	Total	The Nordic countries	Western Europe else	EU countries in Eastern Europe	Eastern Europe else	Northern America and Oceania	Asia²	Africa	Southern and Central America

August 2008
Total	44 364	11 140	674	534	907	1 501	95	4 744	2 244	441
Settled 4 years and less		2 329	123	157	590	264	24	670	405	96
Settled 4 - 6 years		2 406	79	65	110	372	10	1 016	690	64
Settled 7 years and more		6 405	472	312	207	865	61	3 058	1 149	281

August 2009
Total	77 109	20 153	1 327	1 142	4 027	2 373	157	7 016	3 299	812
Settled 4 years and less		6 364	439	523	3 193	387	31	1 050	570	171
Settled 4 - 6 years		3 429	138	143	471	504	17	1 243	783	130
Settled 7 years and more		10 360	750	476	363	1 482	109	4 723	1 946	511


August 2008
In total	1.3	3.1	1.4	1.3	1.7	3.8	1.2	3.9	5.8	3.2
Settled 4 years and less		2.1	1.2	1.1	1.5	3.8	1.0	2.7	4.2	3.1
Settled 4 - 6 years		5.2	1.9	1.5	2.8	6.2	1.2	5.6	8.9	4.1
Settled 7 years and more		3.1	1.4	1.4	2.1	3.2	1.3	3.8	5.5	3.1

August 2009
In total	2.2	5.1	2.6	2.6	6.5	5.7	1.8	5.4	7.9	5.6
Settled 4 years and less		5.2	3.5	3.3	7.1	5.8	1.2	4.0	5.4	5.3
Settled 4 - 6 years		7.2	3.3	2.9	7.3	8.5	2.0	7.7	10.4	7.8
Settled 7 years and more		4.6	2.1	2.0	3.4	5.1	2.2	5.4	8.2	5.3

¹	Note that persons used as numerator give a slightly lower level of unemployed compared to percentages based on the the labour force.
²	Turkey is included.