Table 2 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 16 to 74 years. By the end of May 2006 and 2007

2	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 16 to 74 years. By the end of May 2006 and 2007

	Mai 2006			Mai 2007

	In total	Males	Females	In total	Males	Females

Participants, total	11 820	6 119	5 701	11 984	6 064	5 920

Non-immigrant population and descendants	8 121	4 389	3 732	7 464	4 025	3 439

First generation immigrants, total	3 699	1 730	1 969	4 520	2 039	2 481
The Nordic countries	95	41	54	103	46	57
Western Europe else	94	59	35	99	57	42
New EU countries in Eastern Europe¹	74	12	62	87	16	71
Eastern Europe else	675	252	423	779	280	499
North America and Oceania	19	12	7	16	8	8
Asia²	1 792	790	1 002	2 143	909	1 234
Africa	793	512	281	1 108	666	442
South and Central America	157	52	105	185	57	128

	Per cent
Participants, total	0.4	0.4	0.3	0.4	0.4	0.4

Non-immigrant population and descendants	0.3	0.3	0.2	0.2	0.3	0.2

First generation immigrants, total	1.3	1.2	1.4	1.4	1.3	1.6
The Nordic countries	0.2	0.2	0.2	0.2	0.2	0.2
Western Europe else	0.3	0.3	0.3	0.3	0.3	0.3
New EU countries in Eastern Europe	0.4	0.1	0.7	0.3	0.1	0.6
Eastern Europe else	1.8	1.5	2.0	2.0	1.6	2.3
North America and Oceania	0.3	0.3	0.2	0.2	0.2	0.2
Asia²	1.7	1.6	1.8	1.9	1.7	2.1
Africa	2.5	2.9	2.0	3.2	3.5	2.9
South and Central America	1.3	1.0	1.6	1.5	1.1	1.8

¹	EU-status per 01.05. 2004.
²	Turkey is included.