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 15 to 74 years. By the end of February 2009 and 2010

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 15 to 74 years. By the end of February 2009 and 2010
	February 2009			February 2010			Changes, total 2009-2010

	In total	Males	Females	In total	Males	Females	Changes, total 2009-2010

Participants, total	13 809	7 085	6 724	21 822	11 507	10 315	8 013

Non-immigrant population¹	8 578	4 922	3 656	13 575	7 980	5 595	4 997

Immigrants registered as residents, total	5 231	2 163	3 068	8 247	3 527	4 720	3 016
The Nordic countries	121	67	54	250	136	114	129
Western Europe else	172	76	96	334	172	162	162
EU countries in Eastern Europe	258	70	188	958	496	462	700
Eastern Europe else	741	268	473	953	351	602	212
North America and Oceania	28	14	14	40	23	17	12
Asia²	2 371	913	1 458	3 504	1 324	2 180	1 133
Africa	1 336	691	645	1 872	917	955	536
South and Central America	204	64	140	336	108	228	132

Participants, total	0.4	0.4	0.4	0.6	0.6	0.6	0.2

Non-immigrant population¹	0.3	0.3	0.2	0.4	0.5	0.4	0.1

Immigrants registered as residents, total	1.4	1.1	1.7	2.0	1.6	2.3	0.6
The Nordic countries	0.2	0.3	0.2	0.5	0.5	0.4	0.3
Western Europe else	0.4	0.3	0.5	0.7	0.6	0.8	0.3
EU countries in Eastern Europe	0.4	0.2	0.9	1.4	1.1	1.8	1.0
Eastern Europe else	1.8	1.5	2.1	2.2	1.9	2.5	0.4
North America and Oceania	0.3	0.3	0.3	0.5	0.5	0.4	0.2
Asia²	1.9	1.5	2.2	2.6	2.1	3.0	0.7
Africa	3.3	3.1	3.5	4.2	3.8	4.7	0.9
South and Central America	1.4	1.1	1.7	2.2	1.7	2.6	0.8

¹	Non-residents included, 86 (2009) and 163 (2010).
²	Turkey is included.