Survey on Adult Population Involvement in Learning Activities Social and cultural involvement. Absolute values Persons, by number of books read for pleasure in the last twelve months, sex and highest level of studies completed. Units: persons (absolute values) Total None Between 1 and 3 books Between 4 and 7 books Between 8 and 12 books More than 12 books No data recorded Both sexes Total 29,238,135 12,161,230 8,149,718 4,272,992 1,812,735 2,789,740 51,720 First stage secondary education and lower 15,728,355 9,140,184 4,177,142 1,361,975 424,350 584,766 39,939 Intermediate-level studies 5,726,079 1,719,564 1,863,656 1,014,934 432,711 692,235 . Tertiary level and university studies 7,783,701 1,301,482 2,108,920 1,896,083 955,673 1,512,740 . Males Total 14,593,072 6,926,762 3,717,200 1,920,381 786,088 1,208,122 34,517 First stage secondary education and lower 7,756,598 5,009,896 1,803,459 524,731 168,934 221,976 . Intermediate-level studies 2,987,841 1,124,843 907,168 483,231 189,347 282,174 . Tertiary level and university studies 3,848,633 792,024 1,006,573 912,419 427,807 703,972 . Females Total 14,645,063 5,234,467 4,432,518 2,352,610 1,026,647 1,581,618 . First stage secondary education and lower 7,971,757 4,130,288 2,373,683 837,244 255,416 362,790 . Intermediate-level studies 2,738,238 594,720 956,488 531,703 243,364 410,060 . Tertiary level and university studies 3,935,068 509,459 1,102,347 983,664 527,866 808,768 . Notes: .Data protected by statistical secrecy 1) The Intermediate-level studies category is comprised of: post-secondary education and intermediate-level technical-professional education. 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