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 2011 and 2012

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 2011 and 2012
	February 2011			February 2012			Changes, 2011-2012

	In total	Males	Females	In total	Males	Females	Total	Males	Females

Participants, total	16 247	8 375	7 872	19 764	9 773	9 991	3 517	1 398	2 119

Non-immigrant population¹	9 704	5 814	3 890	11 283	6 502	4 781	1 579	688	891

Immigrants registered as residents, total	6 543	2 561	3 982	8 481	3 271	5 210	1 938	710	1 228
The Nordic countries	174	90	84	191	90	101	17	0	17
Western Europe else	228	114	114	272	134	138	44	20	24
EU countries in Eastern Europe	857	321	536	1 315	403	912	458	82	376
Eastern Europe else	742	260	482	871	303	568	129	43	86
North America and Oceania	33	17	16	37	18	19	4	1	3
Asia²	2 747	959	1 788	3 557	1 241	2 316	810	282	528
Africa	1 467	712	755	1 927	989	938	460	277	183
South and Central America	295	88	207	311	93	218	16	5	11

	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	0.4	0.2	0.3	0.4	0.3	0.0	0.0	0.1

Immigrants registered as residents, total	1.4	1.1	1.8	1.7	1.2	2.2	0.3	0.1	0.4
The Nordic countries	0.3	0.3	0.3	0.3	0.3	0.3	0.0	0.0	0.0
Western Europe else	0.5	0.4	0.6	0.5	0.4	0.6	0.0	0.0	0.0
EU countries in Eastern Europe	1.0	0.6	1.6	1.2	0.6	2.3	0.2	0.0	0.7
Eastern Europe else	1.7	1.3	1.9	1.9	1.5	2.1	0.2	0.2	0.2
North America and Oceania	0.4	0.4	0.4	0.4	0.4	0.4	0.0	0.0	0.0
Asia²	1.9	1.4	2.3	2.3	1.8	2.8	0.4	0.4	0.5
Africa	3.0	2.7	3.4	3.6	3.4	3.8	0.6	0.7	0.4
South and Central America	1.9	1.3	2.2	1.9	1.3	2.2	0.0	0.0	0.0

¹	Non-residents included, 186 (2011) and 258 (2012).
²	Turkey is included.