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
	2nd quarter 2014			2nd quarter 2015			Change last twelve months
	Both sexes	Males	Females	Both sexes	Males	Females	2nd quarter 2014 - 2nd quarter 2015
	Both sexes	Males	Females	Both sexes	Males	Females	Both sexes	Males	Females
¹Non-residents included.
²Turkey is included.
Absolute figures
Participants, total	15 049	7 526	7 523	13 584	7 073	6 511	-1 465	-453	-1 012
Non-immigrant population¹	8 694	5 016	3 678	8 010	4 733	3 277	-684	-283	-401
Immigrants, total	6 355	2 510	3 845	5 574	2 340	3 234	-781	-170	-611
The Nordic countries	156	84	72	128	82	46	-28	-2	-26
Western Europe else	241	123	118	231	110	121	-10	-13	3
EU countries in Eastern Europe	1 020	299	721	880	313	567	-140	14	-154
Eastern Europe else	605	194	411	587	203	384	-18	9	-27
North-America and Oceania	26	10	16	21	12	9	-5	2	-7
Asia²	2 446	868	1 578	2 064	784	1 280	-382	-84	-298
Africa	1 593	852	741	1 428	766	662	-165	-86	-79
South- and Central-Amerika	268	80	188	235	70	165	-33	-10	-23

Per cent
Participants, total	0.4	0.4	0.4	0.4	0.4	0.3	0.0	0.0	-0.1
Non-immigrant population¹	0.3	0.3	0.2	0.2	0.3	0.2	0.0	0.0	0.0
Immigrants, total	1.1	0.8	1.4	0.9	0.7	1.1	-0.2	-0.1	-0.3
The Nordic countries	0.3	0.3	0.2	0.2	0.3	0.2	-0.1	0.0	-0.1
Western Europe else	0.4	0.4	0.5	0.4	0.3	0.5	0.0	-0.1	0.0
EU countries in Eastern Europe	0.7	0.3	1.3	0.6	0.3	0.9	-0.1	0.0	-0.4
Eastern Europe else	1.2	0.9	1.5	1.2	0.9	1.3	-0.1	0.0	-0.2
North-America and Oceania	0.3	0.2	0.3	0.2	0.2	0.2	-0.1	0.0	-0.2
Asia²	1.5	1.1	1.7	1.2	1.0	1.4	-0.3	-0.2	-0.4
Africa	2.4	2.3	2.4	2.0	1.9	2.0	-0.4	-0.4	-0.4
South- and Central-Amerika	1.4	1.0	1.7	1.2	0.9	1.4	-0.2	-0.2	-0.3