Survey on Adult Population Involvement in Learning Activities Formal and informal education. Absolute values Reason for carrying out the informal education activity, by sex and nationality of the person carrying it out. Units: activities To do one's work better and/or improve professional aspirations To decrease the possibility of losing one's job To increase the possibility of getting a job or changing to another job or profession To create one's own enterprise Obligated to participate To acquire knowledge or techniques that are useful in everyday life To acquire knowledge or techniques that are useful in a subject, for personal interests To gain a certificate To meet new people, for fun For other reasons BOTH SEXES Total 5,819,369 966,517 2,165,924 374,137 872,682 4,192,671 5,767,777 2,049,666 1,102,485 376,229 Spanish 5,459,922 835,401 1,845,784 332,289 815,586 3,814,644 5,368,581 1,801,436 990,079 354,000 Other nationality 359,447 131,115 320,140 . 57,095 378,027 399,196 248,230 112,406 . MALES Total 2,989,322 506,537 923,463 207,594 588,756 1,793,479 2,629,134 924,917 377,511 155,708 Spanish 2,802,867 421,621 782,505 187,828 552,635 1,640,583 2,479,593 818,067 327,712 145,595 Other nationality 186,455 84,915 140,958 . . 152,896 149,540 106,850 . . FEMALES Total 2,830,047 459,980 1,242,461 166,543 283,926 2,399,192 3,138,644 1,124,749 724,974 220,521 Spanish 2,657,055 413,780 1,063,278 144,462 262,951 2,174,061 2,888,988 983,369 662,367 208,405 Other nationality 172,992 46,200 179,183 . . 225,131 249,656 141,380 62,607 . Notes: .Data protected by statistical secrecy 1) For each activity, several reasons may be checked Data referring to the 12 months prior to the date of the survey. The symbol '.' shall be deemed as data which cannot be provided since it may be affected by sampling errors. Source: National Statistics Institute