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 to 74 years within each group. By the end of August 2009 and 2010

2 Participants on ordinary labour market schemes (job programmes), by immigrant background, region of birth and sex. Absolute figures and in per cent of persons aged 15 to 74 years within each group. By the end of August 2009 and 2010
	August 2009			August 2010			Changes, total 2009-2010

	In total	Males	Females	In total	Males	Females	Changes, total 2009-2010

Participants, total	11 790	6 244	5 546	10 261	5 329	4 932	-1 529

Non-immigrant population¹	7 152	4 295	2 857	5 971	3 550	2 421	-1 181

Immigrants registered as residents, total	4 638	1 949	2 689	4 290	1 779	2 511	-348
The Nordic countries	120	71	49	104	62	42	-16
Western Europe else	164	91	73	145	68	77	-19
EU countries in Eastern Europe	305	119	186	466	173	293	161
Eastern Europe else	540	200	340	469	156	313	-71
North America and Oceania	31	16	15	17	12	5	-14
Asia²	2 092	777	1 315	1 893	736	1 157	-199
Africa	1 183	606	577	992	499	493	-191
South and Central America	203	69	134	204	73	131	1

	Per cent
Participants, total	0.3	0.3	0.3	0.3	0.3	0.3	0.0

Non-immigrant population¹	0.2	0.3	0.2	0.2	0.2	0.2	0.0

Immigrants registered as residents, total	1.2	1.0	1.4	1.0	0.8	1.2	-0.2
The Nordic countries	0.2	0.3	0.2	0.2	0.2	0.2	0.0
Western Europe else	0.4	0.3	0.4	0.3	0.2	0.4	-0.1
EU countries in Eastern Europe	0.5	0.3	0.8	0.6	0.4	1.0	0.1
Eastern Europe else	1.3	1.1	1.5	1.1	0.8	1.3	-0.2
North America and Oceania	0.4	0.4	0.4	0.2	0.3	0.1	-0.2
Asia²	1.6	1.3	1.9	1.4	1.1	1.6	-0.2
Africa	2.8	2.7	3.0	2.1	2.0	2.3	-0.7
South and Central America	1.4	1.1	1.6	1.3	1.1	1.5	-0.1

¹	Non-residents included; 103 (2009) and 75 (2010).
²	Turkey is included.