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
	1st quarter 2016			1st quarter 2017			Change last twelve months
	Both sexes	Males	Females	Both sexes	Males	Females	1st quarter 2016 - 1st quarter 2017
	Both sexes	Males	Females	Both sexes	Males	Females	Both sexes	Males	Females
¹Non-residents included.
²Turkey is included.
Absolute figures
Participants, total	17 499	9 215	8 284	21 571	11 432	10 139	4 072	2 217	1 855
Non-immigrant population¹	9 915	6 033	3 882	12 188	7 604	4 584	2 273	1 571	702
Immigrants, total	7 584	3 182	4 402	9 383	3 828	5 555	1 799	646	1 153
The Nordic countries	213	128	85	253	134	119	40	6	34
Western Europe else	273	132	141	433	237	196	160	105	55
EU countries in Eastern Europe	1 387	513	874	1 623	526	1 097	236	13	223
Eastern Europe else	722	235	487	862	277	585	140	42	98
North-America and Oceania	32	18	14	59	33	26	27	15	12
Asia²	2 748	1 029	1 719	3 441	1 253	2 188	693	224	469
Africa	1 904	1 031	873	2 357	1 264	1 093	453	233	220
South- and Central-Amerika	305	96	209	355	104	251	50	8	42

Per cent
Participants, total	0.4	0.5	0.4	0.5	0.6	0.5	0.1	0.1	0.1
Non-immigrant population¹	0.3	0.4	0.2	0.4	0.5	0.3	0.1	0.1	0.1
Immigrants, total	1.2	0.9	1.5	1.4	1.1	1.8	0.2	0.2	0.3
The Nordic countries	0.3	0.4	0.3	0.4	0.4	0.4	0.1	0.0	0.1
Western Europe else	0.4	0.4	0.5	0.7	0.6	0.7	0.3	0.2	0.2
EU countries in Eastern Europe	0.8	0.5	1.4	1.0	0.5	1.7	0.2	0.0	0.3
Eastern Europe else	1.4	1.0	1.6	1.6	1.2	1.9	0.2	0.2	0.3
North-America and Oceania	0.3	0.3	0.3	0.6	0.6	0.5	0.3	0.3	0.2
Asia²	1.5	1.2	1.8	1.7	1.4	2.1	0.2	0.2	0.3
Africa	2.5	2.4	2.5	2.9	2.8	3.0	0.4	0.4	0.5
South- and Central-Amerika	1.5	1.1	1.8	1.7	1.2	2.1	0.2	0.1	0.3