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 within each group. By the end of August 2011 and 2012

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 2012
	August 2011			August 2012			Changes, total 2011-2012

	In total	Males	Females	In total	Males	Females

Participants, total	11 801	5 973	5 828	11 940	5 894	6 046	139	-79	218

Non-immigrant population¹	6 510	3 826	2 684	6 413	3 744	2 669	-97	-82	-15

Immigrants registered as residents, total	5 291	2 147	3 144	5 527	2 150	3 377	236	3	233
The Nordic countries	127	65	62	140	76	64	13	11	2
Western Europe else	172	94	78	169	82	87	-3	-12	9
EU countries in Eastern Europe	756	306	450	884	301	583	128	-5	133
Eastern Europe else	514	181	333	506	180	326	-8	-1	-7
North America and Oceania	22	12	10	23	10	13	1	-2	3
Asia²	2 329	866	1 463	2 301	799	1 502	-28	-67	39
Africa	1 157	566	591	1 270	634	636	113	68	45
South and Central America	214	57	157	234	68	166	20	11	9

		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	1.1	0.9	1.4	1.1	0.8	1.4	0.0	-0.1	0.0
The Nordic countries	0.2	0.2	0.2	0.2	0.2	0.2	0.0	0.0	0.0
Western Europe else	0.3	0.3	0.4	0.3	0.2	0.4	0.1	0.0	0.2
EU countries in Eastern Europe	0.8	0.5	1.3	0.8	0.4	1.4	0.5	0.1	1.0
Eastern Europe else	1.1	0.9	1.3	1.1	0.9	1.2	0.3	0.4	-0.1
North America and Oceania	0.2	0.3	0.2	0.2	0.2	0.3	-0.9	-0.7	-1.0
Asia²	1.6	1.3	1.9	1.5	1.1	1.8	1.3	0.8	1.6
Africa	2.3	2.1	2.5	2.3	2.1	2.5	0.7	0.8	0.6
South and Central America	1.3	0.8	1.7	1.4	1.0	1.7	-0.9	-1.1	-0.8

¹	Non-residents included, 149 (2011) and 182 (2012).
²	Turkey is included.