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 2014			3rd quarter 2015			Change last twelve months
	Both sexes	Males	Females	Both sexes	Males	Females	3rd quarter 2014 - 3rd quarter 2015
	Both sexes	Males	Females	Both sexes	Males	Females	Both sexes	Males	Females
¹Non-residents included.
²Turkey is included.
Absolute figures
Participants, total	6 557	3 442	3 115	9 102	4 854	4 248	2 545	1 412	1 133
Non-immigrant population¹	3 599	2 177	1 422	5 110	3 088	2 022	1 511	911	600
Immigrants, total	2 958	1 265	1 693	3 992	1 766	2 226	1 034	501	533
The Nordic countries	65	38	27	108	72	36	43	34	9
Western Europe else	120	57	63	171	88	83	51	31	20
EU countries in Eastern Europe	469	155	314	714	270	444	245	115	130
Eastern Europe else	263	78	185	376	149	227	113	71	42
North-America and Oceania	13	8	5	16	13	3	3	5	-2
Asia²	1 139	462	677	1 466	589	877	327	127	200
Africa	746	410	336	975	532	443	229	122	107
South- and Central-Amerika	143	57	86	166	53	113	23	-4	27

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