Economically Active Population Survey
Results by Autonomous Communities
Absolute values. Population 16 years of age and over by sex, Autonomous Communities 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	
both sexes	
    Total	34,405.3	966.5	11,747.8	8,597.3	6,028.0	33.7	6,938.8	93.2	
    Andalucía	6,038.2	287.4	2,341.2	1,437.4	962.6	8.9	987.5	13.1	
    Aragón	992.2	15.8	388.6	191.6	178.0	0.2	215.3	2.7	
    Asturias (Principado de)	920.1	4.6	360.6	213.0	153.8	3.0	183.9	1.2	
    Balears (Illes)	709.5	18.5	210.6	236.4	150.4	0.8	92.3	0.6	
    Canarias	1,526.9	69.9	460.5	431.1	287.0	2.5	271.2	4.7	
    Cantabria	458.4	0.9	161.2	107.8	91.2	1.1	95.9	0.4	
    Castilla y León	2,102.5	23.7	834.4	456.9	353.4	2.6	425.7	5.7	
    Castilla - La Mancha	1,440.1	89.5	532.7	406.1	211.1	2.0	197.2	1.6	
    Cataluña	5,338.3	100.2	1,742.7	1,364.7	974.1	0.4	1,133.2	22.9	
    Comunidad Valenciana	3,545.5	112.9	1,000.7	1,143.0	626.1	3.7	648.2	10.9	
    Extremadura	896.2	51.1	273.0	318.6	125.2	2.1	124.8	1.4	
    Galicia	2,386.7	55.9	807.0	686.0	393.8	1.3	436.0	6.7	
    Madrid (Comunidad de)	4,506.2	70.9	1,384.7	903.5	892.0	1.0	1,240.9	13.1	
    Murcia (Región de)	953.5	41.5	345.2	219.1	171.9	2.0	171.0	2.8	
    Navarra (Comunidad Foral de)	460.0	3.3	164.6	90.5	78.1	0.3	122.2	0.9	
    País Vasco	1,786.9	12.4	613.6	310.5	321.2	1.5	523.9	3.7	
    Rioja (La)	230.8	1.1	93.6	50.1	34.3	..	51.3	0.3	
    Ceuta and Melilla	113.2	6.8	33.0	30.8	23.7	0.1	18.2	0.5	
males	
    Total	16,703.8	300.4	5,306.3	4,548.0	3,017.7	18.2	3,454.4	58.8	
    Andalucía	2,936.7	87.1	1,093.8	754.0	485.0	3.6	504.4	8.9	
    Aragón	485.7	5.7	175.8	100.8	93.0	0.1	108.8	1.5	
    Asturias (Principado de)	435.9	1.5	148.1	113.2	79.0	2.7	90.8	0.7	
    Balears (Illes)	349.4	5.0	93.0	133.5	74.6	0.3	42.5	0.4	
    Canarias	759.8	27.6	228.1	223.0	144.3	1.0	132.5	3.3	
    Cantabria	221.5	0.2	68.7	57.1	44.9	0.6	49.6	0.4	
    Castilla y León	1,030.6	8.6	382.6	251.6	181.8	1.7	200.7	3.6	
    Castilla - La Mancha	712.1	29.3	260.0	219.7	107.8	0.8	93.4	1.0	
    Cataluña	2,590.8	29.1	779.3	723.6	471.8	0.2	572.6	14.1	
    Comunidad Valenciana	1,725.6	35.9	443.7	603.7	311.6	1.6	322.4	6.7	
    Extremadura	441.4	16.8	130.2	174.1	61.9	0.7	56.7	1.0	
    Galicia	1,137.6	13.9	349.9	369.9	195.0	0.7	203.8	4.4	
    Madrid (Comunidad de)	2,142.1	20.8	592.2	454.5	445.4	1.0	621.0	7.1	
    Murcia (Región de)	469.3	11.4	161.2	120.7	86.3	1.8	86.0	1.9	
    Navarra (Comunidad Foral de)	227.2	1.7	76.7	48.2	39.5	0.0	60.4	0.7	
    País Vasco	864.7	4.1	264.1	153.4	166.1	1.1	273.7	2.2	
    Rioja (La)	114.0	0.5	43.6	28.5	16.2	..	25.0	0.3	
    Ceuta and Melilla	59.2	1.2	15.3	18.5	13.4	0.1	10.2	0.5	
females	
    Total	17,701.5	666.1	6,441.6	4,049.3	3,010.3	15.5	3,484.4	34.4	
    Andalucía	3,101.5	200.3	1,247.4	683.4	477.7	5.3	483.1	4.2	
    Aragón	506.5	10.1	212.8	90.8	85.0	0.1	106.5	1.2	
    Asturias (Principado de)	484.2	3.0	212.5	99.8	74.8	0.4	93.2	0.5	
    Balears (Illes)	360.1	13.5	117.6	102.8	75.8	0.5	49.8	0.2	
    Canarias	767.1	42.4	232.4	208.1	142.7	1.5	138.6	1.4	
    Cantabria	236.9	0.7	92.5	50.7	46.4	0.4	46.3	..	
    Castilla y León	1,071.9	15.1	451.9	205.3	171.6	0.9	225.1	2.1	
    Castilla - La Mancha	728.0	60.2	272.6	186.4	103.3	1.2	103.7	0.6	
    Cataluña	2,747.5	71.1	963.4	641.0	502.3	0.3	560.6	8.8	
    Comunidad Valenciana	1,819.9	77.0	557.0	539.3	314.5	2.1	325.8	4.2	
    Extremadura	454.8	34.4	142.8	144.5	63.3	1.4	68.1	0.3	
    Galicia	1,249.0	42.0	457.1	316.1	198.7	0.6	232.3	2.3	
    Madrid (Comunidad de)	2,364.1	50.1	792.5	449.1	446.6	..	619.9	6.0	
    Murcia (Región de)	484.2	30.0	184.0	98.5	85.6	0.2	85.0	0.9	
    Navarra (Comunidad Foral de)	232.9	1.7	87.9	42.3	38.6	0.3	61.8	0.2	
    País Vasco	922.1	8.3	349.5	157.1	155.1	0.4	250.2	1.5	
    Rioja (La)	116.7	0.6	50.0	21.6	18.1	..	26.3	0.1	
    Ceuta and Melilla	54.0	5.6	17.7	12.3	10.3	..	8.0	..	
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
1) ~'level of education attained,Secondary education. Second stage and the corresponding training and labour insertion'~Since the first quarter of 2003 this category includes the  Social Guarantee/Professional Initiation Programs.
Source: National Statistics Institute