Survey on Adult Population Involvement in Learning Activities Social and cultural involvement. Absolute values Persons, by frequency with which they read newspapers, sex and highest level of studies completed. Units: persons (absolute values) Total Almost every day At least once a week At least once a month Less than once a month Never No data recorded Both sexes Total 29,238,135 14,131,575 8,256,766 1,871,292 1,112,487 3,807,033 58,982 First stage secondary education and lower 15,728,355 6,033,239 4,527,599 1,254,622 804,912 3,063,555 44,428 Intermediate-level studies 5,726,079 3,273,199 1,621,849 327,982 148,900 354,028 . Tertiary level and university studies 7,783,701 4,825,136 2,107,318 288,688 158,675 389,449 . Males Total 14,593,072 8,205,848 3,850,351 794,626 390,245 1,311,829 . First stage secondary education and lower 7,756,598 3,543,074 2,267,856 568,757 295,170 1,048,985 . Intermediate-level studies 2,987,841 1,974,756 717,376 120,437 47,932 127,340 . Tertiary level and university studies 3,848,633 2,688,018 865,119 105,432 47,144 135,504 . Females Total 14,645,063 5,925,727 4,406,415 1,076,666 722,242 2,495,203 . First stage secondary education and lower 7,971,757 2,490,165 2,259,743 685,865 509,742 2,014,570 . Intermediate-level studies 2,738,238 1,298,444 904,473 207,546 100,968 226,688 . Tertiary level and university studies 3,935,068 2,137,118 1,242,200 183,256 111,532 253,945 . 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