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 November 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 November 2009 and 2010
	November 2009			November 2010

	In total	Males	Females	In total	Males	Females

Participants, total	21 718	11 500	10 218	15 445	7 787	7 658

Non-immigrant¹ population	13 568	8 047	5 521	9 035	5 332	3 703

Immigrants, total	8 150	3 453	4 697	6 410	2 455	3 955
The Nordic countries	229	124	105	159	89	70
Western Europe else	296	165	131	230	122	108
EU countries in Eastern Europe	841	409	432	678	210	468
Eastern Europe else	987	351	636	714	243	471
North America and Oceania	45	26	19	41	19	22
Asia²	3 476	1 296	2 180	2 809	940	1 869
Africa	1 932	977	955	1 502	746	756
South and Central America	344	105	239	277	86	191

	Per cent
Participants, total	0.6	0.6	0.6	0.4	0.4	0.4

Non-immigrant¹ population	0.4	0.5	0.4	0.3	0.3	0.2

Immigrants, total	2.0	1.6	2.4	1.4	1.1	1.8
The Nordic countries	0.4	0.5	0.4	0.3	0.3	0.2
Western Europe else	0.6	0.6	0.7	0.5	0.4	0.5
EU countries in Eastern Europe	1.3	1.0	1.8	0.8	0.4	1.5
Eastern Europe else	2.3	1.9	2.7	1.6	1.3	1.9
North America and Oceania	0.5	0.6	0.4	0.5	0.4	0.5
Asia²	2.6	2.1	3.1	2.0	1.4	2.5
Africa	4.5	4.2	4.8	3.2	2.9	3.5
South and Central America	2.3	1.7	2.8	1.8	1.3	2.1

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