Registered unemployed among immigrants (discontinued in Statistics Norway), Q1 2016

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
	1st quarter 2015			1st quarter 2016			Change last twelve months
	Both sexes	Males	Females	Both sexes	Males	Females	1st quarter 2015 - 1st quarter 2016
	Both sexes	Males	Females	Both sexes	Males	Females	Both sexes	Males	Females
¹Non-residents included.
²Turkey is included.
Absolute figures
Participants, total	13 329	7 067	6 262	17 499	9 215	8 284	4 170	2 148	2 022
Non-immigrant population¹	7 626	4 609	3 017	9 916	6 033	3 883	2 290	1 424	866
Immigrants, total	5 703	2 458	3 245	7 583	3 182	4 401	1 880	724	1 156
The Nordic countries	140	88	52	212	128	84	72	40	32
Western Europe else	234	116	118	274	132	142	40	16	24
EU countries in Eastern Europe	955	362	593	1 387	513	874	432	151	281
Eastern Europe else	533	162	371	722	235	487	189	73	116
North-America and Oceania	22	13	9	32	18	14	10	5	5
Asia²	2 117	833	1 284	2 748	1 029	1 719	631	196	435
Africa	1 497	822	675	1 904	1 031	873	407	209	198
South- and Central-Amerika	205	62	143	304	96	208	99	34	65

Per cent
Participants, total	0.3	0.4	0.3	0.4	0.5	0.4	0.1	0.1	0.1
Non-immigrant population¹	0.2	0.3	0.2	0.3	0.4	0.2	0.1	0.1	0.0
Immigrants, total	0.9	0.8	1.1	1.2	0.9	1.5	0.3	0.1	0.4
The Nordic countries	0.2	0.3	0.2	0.3	0.4	0.3	0.1	0.1	0.1
Western Europe else	0.4	0.3	0.5	0.4	0.4	0.5	0.0	0.1	0.0
EU countries in Eastern Europe	0.6	0.4	1.0	0.8	0.5	1.4	0.2	0.1	0.4
Eastern Europe else	1.1	0.7	1.3	1.4	1.0	1.6	0.3	0.3	0.3
North-America and Oceania	0.2	0.2	0.2	0.3	0.3	0.3	0.1	0.1	0.1
Asia²	1.2	1.0	1.4	1.5	1.2	1.8	0.3	0.2	0.4
Africa	2.1	2.1	2.1	2.5	2.4	2.5	0.4	0.3	0.4
South- and Central-Amerika	1.0	0.8	1.3	1.5	1.1	1.8	0.5	0.3	0.5

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