Survey on Adult Population Involvement in Learning Activities 
DIFFICULTIES AND INFORMATION SEARCH ABOUT LEARNING OPPORTUNITIES
Persons aged 18 to 65 years old who, wishing to participate in education activities, do not do it by reason, sex and maximum educational level achieved
Units: percentage of persons

	They found difficult to find what they wanted	They do not meet the necesary requirements	Education was too expensive and they could not afford it	Lack of support from the employers or Public Services	Education activities were not compatible with their working days	Education activities did not take place in a reasonably near place	They coul not access a computer nor the Internet required to participate in the activities	They had no time due to family duties	Age or health	Other personal reasons	
BOTH SEX	
    Total	11.69	10.10	16.63	19.26	28.77	5.67	1.10	24.07	2.88	14.52	
    Obligatory secondary education, first stage primary education and illiterate	11.70	13.81	17.50	26.48	22.08	6.00	.	23.63	4.18	12.13	
    Intermediate studies	11.73	8.50	18.27	15.68	30.09	5.93	.	24.12	2.63	15.30	
    Upper level studies and university studies	11.66	7.45	14.34	14.51	34.83	5.10	.	24.50	.	16.42	
MALE	
    Total	12.33	11.51	14.64	21.33	31.91	6.20	.	17.12	1.71	13.99	
    Obligatory secondary education, first stage primary education and illiterate	11.36	17.08	15.34	27.81	25.15	5.88	.	14.83	.	13.09	
    Intermediate studies	13.66	8.70	17.07	18.10	31.67	6.01	.	16.64	.	15.96	
    Upper level studies and university studies	12.42	6.85	11.61	15.84	40.75	6.77	.	20.47	.	13.42	
FEMALE	
    Total	11.15	8.90	18.32	17.51	26.12	5.22	1.09	29.97	3.87	14.97	
    Obligatory secondary education, first stage primary education and illiterate	12.04	10.48	19.71	25.12	18.96	6.12	.	32.60	5.96	11.16	
    Intermediate studies	10.17	8.34	19.24	13.73	28.81	5.86	.	30.15	4.07	14.77	
    Upper level studies and university studies	11.11	7.89	16.32	13.54	30.54	3.89	.	27.42	.	18.61	
Notes:

.Data protected by statistical secrecy

1) The category 'Intermediate level studies' includes: Secondary education, intermediate technical-vocational education and other.

 This includes those persons who, whether or not they have participated in an  educational activity, wanted to participate in at least another one and were not  able to do so. 
  
Data referring to 12 months before the date of the survey.

 The symbol '.' means that data is not available, since it is affected by sampling errors.
Source: National Statistics Institut