Table 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 2011 and 2011

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 2011 and 2011
	August 2010			August 2011			Changes, total 2010-2011

	In total	Males	Females	In total	Males	Females

Participants, total	10 261	5 329	4 932	11 801	5 973	5 828	1 540	644	896

Non-immigrant population¹	5 971	3 550	2 421	6 509	3 826	2 683	538	276	262

Immigrants registered as residents, total	4 290	1 779	2 511	5 292	2 147	3 145	1 002	368	634
The Nordic countries	95	56	39	127	65	62	32	9	23
Western Europe else	140	65	75	173	95	78	33	30	3
EU countries in Eastern Europe	466	173	293	756	306	450	290	133	157
Eastern Europe else	470	157	313	514	181	333	44	24	20
North America and Oceania	16	11	5	21	11	10	5	0	5
Asia¹	1 899	739	1 160	2 329	866	1 463	430	127	303
Africa	999	505	494	1 158	566	592	159	61	98
South and Central America	205	73	132	214	57	157	9	-16	25

	Per cent							Percentage points
Participants, total	0.3	0.3	0.3	0.3	0.3	0.3	0.0	0.0	0.0

Non-immigrant population¹	0.2	0.2	0.2	0.2	0.2	0.2	0.0	0.0	0.0

Immigrants registered as residents, total	1.0	0.8	1.2	1.1	0.9	1.4	0.1	0.1	0.2
The Nordic countries	0.2	0.2	0.1	0.2	0.2	0.2	0.0	0.0	0.1
Western Europe else	0.3	0.2	0.4	0.3	0.3	0.4	0.0	0.1	0.0
EU countries in Eastern Europe	0.6	0.4	1.0	0.8	0.5	1.3	0.2	0.1	0.3
Eastern Europe else	1.1	0.8	1.3	1.1	0.9	1.3	0.0	0.1	0.0
North America and Oceania	0.2	0.2	0.1	0.2	0.2	0.2	0.0	0.0	0.1
Asia¹	1.4	1.1	1.6	1.6	1.3	1.9	0.2	0.2	0.3
Africa	2.2	2.0	2.3	2.3	2.1	2.6	0.1	0.1	0.3
South and Central America	1.3	1.1	1.5	1.3	0.9	1.7	0.0	-0.2	0.2

¹	Turkey is included.