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 November 2010 and2011

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 November 2010 and2011
	November 2010			November2011			Endring i alt 2010-2011

	In total	Males	Females	In total	Males	Females	In total	Males	Females

Participants, total	15 445	7 787	7 658	19 008	9 375	9 633	3 563	1 588	1 975

Non-immigrant population¹	9 032	5 329	3 703	10 687	6 122	4 565	1 655	793	862

Immigrants, total	6 413	2 458	3 955	8 321	3 253	5 068	1 908	795	1 113
The Nordic countries	149	82	67	193	109	84	44	27	17
Western Europe else	229	122	107	273	140	133	44	18	26
EU countries in Eastern Europe	678	210	468	1 298	442	856	620	232	388
Eastern Europe else	714	243	471	844	303	541	130	60	70
North America and Oceania	42	20	22	33	15	18	-9	-5	-4
Asia²	2 815	942	1 873	3 537	1 247	2 290	722	305	417
Africa	1 508	753	755	1 822	918	904	314	165	149
South and Central America	278	86	192	321	79	242	43	-7	50

				Per cent				Percentage points
Participants, total	0.4	0.4	0.4	0.5	0.5	0.5	0.1	0.1	0.1

Non-immigrant population¹	0.3	0.3	0.2	0.3	0.4	0.3	0.0	0.1	0.1

Immigrants, total	1.4	1.1	1.8	1.7	1.3	2.2	0.3	0.2	0.4
The Nordic countries	0.3	0.3	0.2	0.3	0.4	0.3	0.0	0.1	0.1
Western Europe else	0.5	0.4	0.5	0.5	0.4	0.6	0.0	0.0	0.1
EU countries in Eastern Europe	0.8	0.4	1.5	1.3	0.7	2.3	0.5	0.3	0.8
Eastern Europe else	1.6	1.3	1.9	1.8	1.5	2.1	0.2	0.2	0.2
North America and Oceania	0.5	0.4	0.5	0.4	0.3	0.4	-0.1	-0.1	-0.1
Asia²	2.0	1.4	2.5	2.4	1.8	2.9	0.4	0.4	0.4
Africa	3.2	2.9	3.5	3.5	3.3	3.8	0.3	0.4	0.3
South and Central America	1.8	1.3	2.1	2.0	1.2	2.5	0.2	-0.1	0.4

¹	Non-residents included, 263 (2010) and 194 (2011).
²	Turkey is included.