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 the population aged 15 to 74 years. By the end of May 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 the population aged 15 to 74 years. By the end of May 2010 and 2011
	May 2010			May 2011			Changes, total 2010-2011

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

Participants, total	19 537	10 233	9 304	17 996	9 220	8 776	-1 541

Non-immigrant population¹	11 865	7 084	4 781	10 594	6 209	4 385	-1 271

Immigrants registered as residents, total	7 672	3 149	4 523	7 402	3 011	4 391	-270
The Nordic countries	222	122	100	191	88	103	-31
Western Europe else	294	153	141	244	125	119	-50
EU countries in Eastern Europe	846	366	480	1 027	405	622	181
Eastern Europe else	874	318	556	792	295	497	-82
North America and Oceania	45	22	23	46	24	22	1
Asia²	3 330	1 211	2 119	3 137	1 141	1 996	-193
Africa	1 736	846	890	1 635	827	808	-101
South and Central America	325	111	214	330	106	224	5

	Per cent						Percentage points
Participants, total	0.5	0.6	0.5	0.5	0.5	0.5	0.0

Non-immigrant population¹	0.4	0.4	0.3	0.3	0.4	0.3	-0.1
							0.0
Immigrants registered as residents, total	1.8	1.4	2.2	1.6	1.2	2.0	-0.2
The Nordic countries	0.4	0.4	0.4	0.3	0.3	0.4	-0.1
Western Europe else	0.6	0.5	0.7	0.5	0.4	0.6	-0.1
EU countries in Eastern Europe	1.1	0.8	1.7	1.1	0.7	1.8	0.0
Eastern Europe else	2.0	1.7	2.3	1.8	1.5	2.0	-0.2
North America and Oceania	0.5	0.5	0.5	0.5	0.5	0.5	0.0
Asia²	2.4	1.9	2.9	2.2	1.7	2.6	-0.2
Africa	3.8	3.4	4.3	3.3	3.1	3.5	-0.5
South and Central America	2.1	1.7	2.4	2.1	1.6	2.4	0.0

¹	Non-residents included, 141 (2010) and 193 (2011).
²	Turkey is included.