Economically Active Population Survey
Results by Autonomous Communities
Absolute values. Active population 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	19,190.3	79.2	3,615.3	5,665.1	3,997.3	25.5	5,723.0	84.9	
    Andalucía	3,236.9	23.8	889.7	922.4	591.6	6.5	790.8	12.1	
    Aragón	529.0	1.9	97.2	124.7	125.9	0.2	176.9	2.3	
    Asturias (Principado de)	433.4	0.0	77.7	123.9	86.7	2.5	141.6	0.9	
    Balears (Illes)	438.4	1.8	67.3	178.5	109.8	0.6	79.9	0.6	
    Canarias	891.7	6.5	191.7	272.1	193.8	2.0	221.7	4.1	
    Cantabria	244.3	..	39.1	69.5	57.1	0.8	77.5	0.3	
    Castilla y León	1,070.0	0.7	208.3	290.4	223.9	2.2	339.2	5.3	
    Castilla - La Mancha	744.1	4.3	164.4	275.7	135.3	1.7	161.3	1.5	
    Cataluña	3,191.1	15.8	521.4	935.3	708.2	0.4	989.4	20.6	
    Comunidad Valenciana	2,051.1	8.4	278.9	780.5	435.1	2.9	535.3	9.9	
    Extremadura	463.3	3.0	75.5	202.7	77.7	1.4	101.7	1.3	
    Galicia	1,294.6	2.9	210.5	452.7	257.9	1.1	363.2	6.4	
    Madrid (Comunidad de)	2,610.5	3.9	416.9	575.0	587.8	0.3	1,014.7	12.0	
    Murcia (Región de)	545.4	3.5	130.1	154.8	115.4	1.6	137.3	2.7	
    Navarra (Comunidad Foral de)	260.3	0.5	48.4	59.1	51.4	0.3	99.7	0.9	
    País Vasco	1,002.5	1.4	161.6	195.2	204.0	1.0	436.0	3.2	
    Rioja (La)	125.0	0.1	26.6	35.3	21.4	..	41.4	0.3	
    Ceuta and Melilla	58.6	0.7	10.2	17.4	14.3	0.1	15.4	0.5	
males	
    Total	11,300.6	45.2	2,409.4	3,616.0	2,233.9	14.9	2,928.2	52.9	
    Andalucía	1,984.6	13.0	601.3	600.4	339.2	3.0	419.9	7.9	
    Aragón	316.4	1.3	66.3	81.6	72.8	0.1	93.1	1.2	
    Asturias (Principado de)	255.0	0.0	49.5	80.2	51.4	2.2	71.2	0.5	
    Balears (Illes)	251.5	0.0	41.3	112.9	59.3	0.2	37.3	0.4	
    Canarias	527.4	4.4	129.3	170.7	106.4	1.0	112.7	2.8	
    Cantabria	146.8	..	26.2	45.6	32.2	0.6	41.9	0.3	
    Castilla y León	648.3	0.6	146.2	195.7	132.6	1.5	168.4	3.4	
    Castilla - La Mancha	471.6	2.3	121.0	187.3	79.7	0.7	79.6	1.0	
    Cataluña	1,813.7	10.5	337.3	574.0	373.8	0.2	505.7	12.4	
    Comunidad Valenciana	1,199.7	3.4	178.8	497.1	237.9	1.6	274.9	6.1	
    Extremadura	287.3	1.7	53.0	138.6	43.9	0.5	48.8	1.0	
    Galicia	726.3	0.8	121.8	285.5	142.2	0.6	171.1	4.4	
    Madrid (Comunidad de)	1,487.8	3.0	285.0	349.9	326.6	0.3	516.7	6.4	
    Murcia (Región de)	332.5	2.8	85.8	102.0	66.3	1.4	72.3	1.9	
    Navarra (Comunidad Foral de)	154.2	0.3	33.3	38.0	29.5	0.0	52.4	0.7	
    País Vasco	581.2	0.9	106.6	119.2	119.9	1.0	231.7	1.9	
    Rioja (La)	76.8	0.1	19.3	24.7	11.0	..	21.4	0.3	
    Ceuta and Melilla	39.2	0.2	7.4	12.7	9.2	0.1	9.1	0.5	
females	
    Total	7,889.8	34.0	1,206.0	2,049.0	1,763.4	10.6	2,794.8	32.0	
    Andalucía	1,252.3	10.8	288.4	322.0	252.4	3.6	370.9	4.2	
    Aragón	212.6	0.6	30.9	43.1	53.1	0.1	83.8	1.1	
    Asturias (Principado de)	178.4	..	28.2	43.6	35.3	0.3	70.4	0.5	
    Balears (Illes)	186.9	1.7	26.0	65.6	50.4	0.4	42.6	0.2	
    Canarias	364.4	2.1	62.3	101.3	87.3	1.0	108.9	1.3	
    Cantabria	97.5	..	12.9	23.9	25.0	0.2	35.5	..	
    Castilla y León	421.6	0.2	62.1	94.7	91.3	0.7	170.8	1.9	
    Castilla - La Mancha	272.5	2.0	43.3	88.4	55.6	1.0	81.7	0.5	
    Cataluña	1,377.4	5.3	184.1	361.3	334.5	0.3	483.7	8.2	
    Comunidad Valenciana	851.4	5.0	100.2	283.4	197.3	1.3	260.4	3.8	
    Extremadura	176.0	1.4	22.5	64.1	33.8	0.9	52.9	0.3	
    Galicia	568.3	2.2	88.7	167.2	115.6	0.5	192.2	2.0	
    Madrid (Comunidad de)	1,122.6	0.9	131.9	225.1	261.1	..	498.0	5.6	
    Murcia (Región de)	212.9	0.7	44.3	52.8	49.1	0.2	65.0	0.8	
    Navarra (Comunidad Foral de)	106.0	0.2	15.1	21.1	22.0	0.3	47.2	0.2	
    País Vasco	421.2	0.5	55.0	76.0	84.1	..	204.3	1.3	
    Rioja (La)	48.2	..	7.2	10.6	10.4	..	19.9	0.1	
    Ceuta and Melilla	19.4	0.4	2.8	4.7	5.1	..	6.3	..	
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