Economically Active Population Survey
Chapter III. Provincial results
Absolute values. Active population by province and level of education attained.
Units: thousands of persons

	total	Illiterates	Primary education	Secondary education. First stage and the corresponding training and labour insertion	Secondary education. Second stage and the corresponding training and labour insertion	Training and labour insertion with secondary education certificate (2nd stage)	Higher education, except doctorate	Doctorate	
Total	18,340.4	79.5	4,067.8	5,306.5	3,622.9	28.2	5,164.6	70.9	
Álava	143.9	0.2	29.5	22.1	29.9	0.2	61.2	0.7	
Albacete	148.8	1.6	30.7	54.7	25.1	3.0	33.5	0.2	
Alicante	686.8	6.9	142.5	290.5	108.5	..	137.5	0.9	
Almería	221.1	1.7	79.8	52.9	40.3	1.2	44.4	0.7	
Asturias	412.5	0.1	88.3	106.0	93.3	2.1	121.8	0.9	
Ávila	63.9	0.1	8.7	27.1	11.5	..	16.4	0.1	
Badajoz	277.1	2.8	52.3	115.9	46.3	1.4	57.4	0.9	
Balears (Illes)	408.2	1.4	87.4	134.6	100.5	0.5	82.5	1.3	
Barcelona	2,283.2	2.7	438.9	660.7	479.6	..	691.3	10.0	
Burgos	155.6	0.6	33.3	39.3	29.1	..	53.2	0.2	
Cáceres	171.1	0.9	38.2	65.8	28.4	..	36.8	0.8	
Cádiz	484.7	3.6	158.7	121.2	80.8	0.3	119.1	1.1	
Cantabria	231.3	0.1	47.5	66.6	47.7	0.1	68.8	0.5	
Castellon de la Plana	219.3	0.6	8.9	123.5	38.8	0.1	47.2	0.2	
Ciudad Real	188.0	2.0	50.5	67.7	30.3	0.1	37.2	0.2	
Córdoba	302.3	4.0	97.2	85.4	49.9	2.3	62.5	1.1	
Coruña (A)	496.4	1.0	124.5	146.7	84.9	0.1	136.7	2.4	
Cuenca	76.1	0.0	23.4	26.3	13.2	..	13.0	0.2	
Girona	300.6	2.9	17.2	148.5	62.2	..	68.8	1.0	
Granada	330.0	3.7	90.3	93.4	58.5	1.1	81.1	1.8	
Guadalajara	70.6	..	17.9	16.1	15.5	0.2	20.5	0.3	
Guipúzcoa	327.2	0.4	70.1	61.4	63.1	1.6	129.6	1.0	
Huelva	191.0	2.6	76.9	42.6	30.6	0.6	37.3	0.5	
Huesca	84.0	0.1	13.9	31.1	17.3	0.4	21.1	0.3	
Jaén	262.3	4.9	84.3	80.0	38.8	0.2	53.1	1.0	
León	188.0	0.1	48.3	44.8	40.9	0.1	53.0	0.8	
Lleida	167.2	0.2	53.2	31.4	41.5	..	39.8	1.2	
Lugo	156.2	0.1	59.4	37.7	30.1	0.1	28.4	0.4	
Madrid	2,496.0	5.4	460.3	508.0	553.0	1.8	953.6	14.0	
Málaga	556.9	3.6	147.7	187.0	98.0	2.5	117.6	0.5	
Murcia	510.6	3.4	127.2	151.4	92.1	0.1	134.6	1.8	
Navarra	251.5	0.3	48.7	57.3	44.1	..	100.0	1.2	
Ourense	147.5	0.1	43.6	36.3	29.6	..	37.7	0.2	
Palencia	69.3	..	20.6	17.3	13.1	1.4	16.7	0.1	
Palmas (Las)	428.4	4.4	109.5	126.9	88.9	1.8	95.4	1.4	
Pontevedra	420.3	0.4	84.3	153.3	74.8	0.2	106.2	1.2	
Rioja (La)	119.6	..	27.8	34.2	21.5	..	35.5	0.5	
Salamanca	152.5	0.1	41.4	31.1	32.3	..	46.1	1.5	
Santa Cruz de Tenerife	401.8	3.0	122.2	91.7	75.3	1.1	105.9	2.6	
Segovia	62.8	0.3	19.2	13.1	13.1	0.3	16.9	0.0	
Sevilla	762.1	4.6	146.9	245.9	153.5	0.6	205.3	5.3	
Soria	42.3	..	11.0	12.0	8.8	0.0	10.5	0.1	
Tarragona	313.7	0.9	63.7	97.6	70.5	..	79.0	1.8	
Teruel	52.8	0.1	13.5	17.6	8.6	..	13.0	0.1	
Toledo	231.4	2.1	60.2	81.0	39.7	0.1	47.6	0.7	
Valencia	1,044.7	2.6	187.2	382.3	205.0	1.7	263.9	2.1	
Valladolid	238.0	0.1	48.6	56.8	55.0	0.5	75.3	1.7	
Vizcaya	507.2	0.7	93.7	100.2	103.6	..	207.5	1.6	
Zamora	67.8	0.0	31.1	12.6	11.6	0.3	12.0	0.1	
Zaragoza	365.4	1.3	78.4	87.7	78.3	..	118.2	1.5	
Ceuta and Melilla	50.8	0.8	9.3	11.2	15.8	0.1	13.3	0.2	
Notes:
1) The estimates for Ceuta and Melilla are not published broken down  because the sample size in each one of them does not permit this
Source: National Statistics Institute