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 the population aged 15 to 74 years. By the end of May 2011 and 2012

2 Participants on ordinary labour market schemes (job programmes), by immigrant background, region of birth and sex. Absolute numbers and in per cent of the population aged 15 to 74 years. By the end of May 2011 and 2012
	May 2011			May 2012			Changes, total 2011-2012

	In total	Males	Females	In total	Males	Females	Changes, total 2011-2012

Participants, total	17 996	9 220	8 776	19 389	9 524	9 865	1 393

Non-immigrant population¹	10 599	6 209	4 390	11 036	6 317	4 719	437

Immigrants registered as residents, total	7 397	3 011	4 386	8 353	3 207	5 146	956
The Nordic countries	190	88	102	195	99	96	5
Western Europe else	244	125	119	292	150	142	48
EU countries in Eastern Europe	1 027	405	622	1 304	401	903	277
Eastern Europe else	793	295	498	835	271	564	42
North America and Oceania	46	24	22	45	24	21	-1
Asia²	3 137	1 141	1 996	3 366	1 152	2 214	229
Africa	1 630	827	803	2 003	1 015	988	373
South and Central America	330	106	224	313	95	218	-17

			Per cent				Percentage points
Participants, total	0.5	0.5	0.5	0.5	0.5	0.5	0.0

Non-immigrant population¹	0.3	0.4	0.3	0.3	0.4	0.3	0.0

Immigrants registered as residents, total	1.6	1.2	2.0	1.6	1.2	2.1	0.0
The Nordic countries	0.3	0.3	0.4	0.3	0.3	0.3	0.0
Western Europe else	0.5	0.4	0.6	0.5	0.5	0.6	0.0
EU countries in Eastern Europe	1.1	0.7	1.8	1.1	0.6	2.2	0.0
Eastern Europe else	1.8	1.5	2.0	1.8	1.3	2.1	0.0
North America and Oceania	0.5	0.5	0.5	0.5	0.5	0.5	0.0
Asia²	2.2	1.7	2.6	2.2	1.6	2.7	0.0
Africa	3.3	3.1	3.5	3.6	3.4	3.9	0.3
South and Central America	2.1	1.6	2.4	1.8	1.3	2.2	-0.3

¹	Non-residents included, 193 (2011) and 258 (2012).
²	Turkey is included.