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
	4th quarter 2014			4th quarter 2015			Change last twelve months
	Both sexes	Males	Females	Both sexes	Males	Females	4th quarter 2014 - 4th quarter 2015
	Both sexes	Males	Females	Both sexes	Males	Females	Both sexes	Males	Females
¹Non-residents included.
²Turkey is included.
Absolute figures
Participants, total	12 683	6 617	6 066	16 644	8 659	7 985	3 961	2 042	1 919
Non-immigrant population¹	7 337	4 338	2 999	9 437	5 629	3 808	2 100	1 291	809
Immigrants, total	5 346	2 279	3 067	7 207	3 030	4 177	1 861	751	1 110
The Nordic countries	130	77	53	194	111	83	64	34	30
Western Europe else	194	95	99	284	143	141	90	48	42
EU countries in Eastern Europe	859	353	506	1 300	496	804	441	143	298
Eastern Europe else	532	157	375	687	229	458	155	72	83
North-America and Oceania	25	13	12	36	18	18	11	5	6
Asia²	1 994	737	1 257	2 623	962	1 661	629	225	404
Africa	1 395	778	617	1 770	970	800	375	192	183
South- and Central-Amerika	217	69	148	313	101	212	96	32	64

Per cent
Participants, total	0.3	0.3	0.3	0.4	0.4	0.4	0.1	0.1	0.1
Non-immigrant population¹	0.2	0.3	0.2	0.3	0.3	0.2	0.1	0.0	0.0
Immigrants, total	0.9	0.7	1.1	1.1	0.9	1.4	0.2	0.2	0.3
The Nordic countries	0.2	0.2	0.2	0.3	0.3	0.3	0.1	0.1	0.1
Western Europe else	0.3	0.3	0.4	0.4	0.4	0.5	0.1	0.1	0.1
EU countries in Eastern Europe	0.6	0.4	0.9	0.8	0.5	1.3	0.2	0.1	0.4
Eastern Europe else	1.1	0.7	1.3	1.3	1.0	1.6	0.2	0.3	0.3
North-America and Oceania	0.2	0.2	0.2	0.3	0.3	0.4	0.1	0.1	0.2
Asia²	1.2	0.9	1.3	1.5	1.2	1.7	0.3	0.3	0.4
Africa	2.0	2.0	2.0	2.3	2.3	2.4	0.3	0.3	0.4
South- and Central-Amerika	1.1	0.8	1.3	1.6	1.2	1.8	0.5	0.4	0.5