Survey on Adult Population Involvement in Learning Activities EDUCATIONAL ADJUSTMENT TO THE JOB Educational adjustement to their job of the persons that are working when the interview, sex and highest educational level Units: percentage of persons Over-educated Adjusted Below-educated BOTH SEXES Total 28.50 53.40 18.10 First stage secondary education, primary education and without studies . 80.04 19.96 Intermediate-level studies 56.80 16.66 26.55 Tertiary level and university studies 35.51 53.89 10.60 MEN Total 28.74 52.79 18.47 First stage secondary education, primary education and without studies . 81.57 18.43 Intermediate-level studies 63.09 9.72 27.19 Tertiary level and university studies 36.86 51.14 11.99 WOMEN Total 28.19 54.18 17.63 First stage secondary education, primary education and without studies . 77.42 22.58 Intermediate-level studies 49.30 24.92 25.78 Tertiary level and university studies 34.17 56.62 9.21 Notes: .Data protected by statistical secrecy 1) A person is considered to be over-educated when their educational level is higher than the most frequent educational level in their job, below-educated when their educational level is lower and adjusted when there coincide Category 'intermediate-level studies' includes: post-secondary education, intermediate techincal-professional studies and equivalent. Data referring to the 12 months prior to the date of the survey. Symbol '.' it has to be understood as data that cannot be given as it might be affected by sampling errors. Source: National Statistics Institute