Table

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
	3rd quarter 2012			3rd quarter 2013			Change last twelve months
	Both sexes	Males	Females	Both sexes	Males	Females	3rd quarter 2012 - 3rd quarter 2013
	Both sexes	Males	Females	Both sexes	Males	Females	Both sexes	Males	Females
¹Non-residents included.
²Turkey is included.
Absolute figures
Participants, total	11 940	5 894	6 046	11 630	5 881	5 749	-310	-13	-297
Non-immigrant population¹	6 413	3 744	2 669	6 200	3 710	2 490	-213	-34	-179
Immigrants, total	5 527	2 150	3 377	5 430	2 171	3 259	-97	21	-118
The Nordic countries	138	75	63	109	61	48	-29	-14	-15
Western Europe else	164	82	82	207	96	111	43	14	29
EU countries in Eastern Europe	884	301	583	905	279	626	21	-22	43
Eastern Europe else	508	180	328	498	184	314	-10	4	-14
North-America and Oceania	23	10	13	23	15	8	0	5	-5
Asia²	2 301	799	1 502	2 212	795	1 417	-89	-4	-85
Africa	1 271	635	636	1 252	665	587	-19	30	-49
South- and Central-Amerika	238	68	170	224	76	148	-14	8	-22

Per cent
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, total	1.1	0.8	1.4	1.0	0.7	1.2	-0.1	0.0	-0.1
The Nordic countries	0.2	0.2	0.2	0.2	0.2	0.2	-0.1	-0.1	-0.1
Western Europe else	0.3	0.3	0.4	0.4	0.3	0.5	0.1	0.0	0.1
EU countries in Eastern Europe	0.8	0.4	1.4	0.7	0.3	1.3	-0.1	-0.1	-0.1
Eastern Europe else	1.1	0.9	1.2	1.0	0.9	1.1	-0.1	0.0	-0.1
North-America and Oceania	0.2	0.2	0.3	0.2	0.3	0.2	0.0	0.1	-0.1
Asia²	1.5	1.1	1.8	1.4	1.1	1.6	-0.1	-0.1	-0.2
Africa	2.3	2.1	2.5	2.0	2.0	2.1	-0.2	-0.1	-0.4
South- and Central-Amerika	1.4	0.9	1.7	1.3	1.0	1.4	-0.1	0.1	-0.3