Table 2 Participants on ordinary labour market schemes (job programmes), by immigrant background, region of birth and sex. By the end of August 2007 and 2008. Absolute numbers and in per cent of persons aged 16 to 74 years

2 Participants on ordinary labour market schemes (job programmes), by immigrant background, region of birth and sex. By the end of August 2007 and 2008. Absolute numbers and in per cent of persons aged 16 to 74 years
	August 2007			August 2008

	In total	Males	Females	In total	Males	Females

Participants, total	6 554	3 229	3 325	7 665	3 972	3 693

Non-immigrant population	3 660	1 967	1 693	4 248	2 477	1 771

Immigrants, total	2 894	1 262	1 632	3 417	1 495	1 922
The Nordic countries	55	28	27	70	34	36
Western Europe else	45	26	19	73	34	39
EU countries in Eastern Europe	78	11	67	120	27	93
Eastern Europe else	424	151	273	435	149	286
North America and Oceania	11	4	7	19	6	13
Asia¹	1 457	590	867	1 589	627	962
Africa	717	417	300	959	561	398
South and Central America	107	35	72	152	57	95

	Per cent
Participants, total	0.2	0.2	0.2	0.2	0.2	0.2

Non-immigrant population	0.1	0.1	0.1	0.1	0.2	0.1

Immigrants, total	0.9	0.8	1.0	0.9	0.8	1.1
The Nordic countries	0.1	0.1	0.1	0.1	0.1	0.1
Western Europe else	0.1	0.1	0.1	0.2	0.1	0.2
EU countries in Eastern Europe	0.2	0.1	0.5	0.2	0.1	0.5
Eastern Europe else	1.1	0.9	1.3	1.1	0.9	1.3
North America and Oceania	0.1	0.1	0.2	0.2	0.2	0.3
Asia¹	1.3	1.1	1.5	1.3	1.1	1.5
Africa	2.1	2.2	1.9	2.5	2.7	2.3
South and Central America	0.8	0.6	1.0	1.1	1.0	1.2

¹	Turkey is included.