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. By the end of February 2010 and 2011

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. By the end of February 2010 and 2011
	February 2010			February 2011			Changes, total 2010-2011

	In total	Males	Females	In total	Males	Females	Changes, total 2010-2011

Participants, total	21 822	11 507	10 315	16 247	8 375	7 872	-5 575

Non-immigrant population¹	13 572	7 979	5 593	9 699	5 814	3 885	-3 873

Immigrants registered as residents, total	8 250	3 528	4 722	6 548	2 561	3 987	-1 702
The Nordic countries	249	135	114	175	90	85	-74
Western Europe else	334	172	162	229	115	114	-105
EU countries in Eastern Europe	958	496	462	857	321	536	-101
Eastern Europe else	954	351	603	741	260	481	-213
North America and Oceania	40	23	17	32	16	16	-8
Asia²	3 505	1 324	2 181	2 747	959	1 788	-758
Africa	1 874	919	955	1 472	712	760	-402
South and Central America	336	108	228	295	88	207	-41


Participants, total	0.6	0.6	0.6	0.4	0.4	0.4	-0.2

Non-immigrant population¹	0.4	0.5	0.4	0.3	0.4	0.2	-0.1

Immigrants registered as residents, total	2.0	1.6	2.3	1.4	1.1	1.8	-0.6
The Nordic countries	0.5	0.5	0.4	0.3	0.3	0.3	-0.2
Western Europe else	0.7	0.6	0.8	0.5	0.4	0.6	-0.2
EU countries in Eastern Europe	1.4	1.1	1.8	1.0	0.6	1.6	-0.4
Eastern Europe else	2.2	1.9	2.5	1.7	1.3	1.9	-0.5
North America and Oceania	0.5	0.5	0.4	0.4	0.3	0.4	-0.1
Asia²	2.6	2.1	3.0	1.9	1.4	2.3	-0.7
Africa	4.2	3.8	4.7	3.0	2.7	3.4	-1.2
South and Central America	2.2	1.7	2.6	1.9	1.3	2.2	-0.3

¹	Non-residents included, 163 (2010) and 186 (2011).
²	Turkey is included.