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 2019			4th quarter 2020			Change last twelve months
	Both sexes	Males	Females	Both sexes	Males	Females	4th quarter 2019 - 4th quarter 2020
	Both sexes	Males	Females	Both sexes	Males	Females	Both sexes	Males	Females
¹Non-residents included.
²Turkey is included.
Absolute figures
Participants, total	14 868	7 492	7 376	15 034	7 600	7 434	166	108	58
Non-immigrant population¹	7 723	4 499	3 224	7 821	4 600	3 221	98	101	-3
Immigrants, total	7 145	2 993	4 152	7 213	3 000	4 213	68	7	61
The Nordic countries	136	67	69	161	77	84	25	10	15
Western Europe else	259	124	135	302	158	144	43	34	9
EU countries in Eastern Europe	943	301	642	1 002	301	701	59	0	59
Eastern Europe else	641	181	460	643	185	458	2	4	-2
North-America and Oceania	30	15	15	38	16	22	8	1	7
Asia²	2 984	1 260	1 724	3 052	1 319	1 733	68	59	9
Africa	1 885	971	914	1 707	856	851	-178	-115	-63
South and Central Amerika	267	74	193	308	88	220	41	14	27

Per cent
Participants, total	0.4	0.4	0.4	0.4	0.4	0.4	0.0	0.0	0.0
Non-immigrant population¹	0.2	0.3	0.2	0.2	0.3	0.2	0.0	0.0	0.0
Immigrants, total	1.0	0.8	1.2	1.0	0.8	1.2	0.0	0.0	0.0
The Nordic countries	0.2	0.2	0.2	0.3	0.2	0.3	0.1	0.0	0.1
Western Europe else	0.4	0.3	0.5	0.4	0.4	0.5	0.0	0.1	0.0
EU countries in Eastern Europe	0.5	0.3	0.9	0.5	0.3	1.0	0.0	0.0	0.1
Eastern Europe else	1.1	0.7	1.4	1.1	0.7	1.3	0.0	0.0	-0.1
North-America and Oceania	0.3	0.2	0.3	0.3	0.3	0.4	0.0	0.1	0.1
Asia²	1.4	1.2	1.5	1.4	1.3	1.5	0.0	0.1	0.0
Africa	2.1	2.0	2.3	1.9	1.8	2.1	-0.2	-0.2	-0.2
South and Central Amerika	1.2	0.8	1.4	1.3	0.9	1.6	0.1	0.1	0.2