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	35,215.3	1,040.5	12,436.3	8,616.7	6,158.2	38.7	6,836.1	88.9	
    Andalucía	6,104.3	307.4	2,415.3	1,434.8	944.1	10.9	978.8	13.1	
    Aragón	1,043.5	20.0	413.5	206.0	181.5	0.4	220.0	2.0	
    Asturias (Principado de)	937.5	5.3	384.6	215.6	154.3	3.0	173.5	1.1	
    Balears (Illes)	760.9	16.7	223.9	237.2	169.5	0.2	112.0	1.3	
    Canarias	1,515.6	61.8	502.7	374.8	305.7	5.9	260.0	4.8	
    Cantabria	467.2	1.0	165.6	112.8	88.8	1.3	97.1	0.6	
    Castilla y León	2,118.9	26.9	891.0	441.3	343.7	4.3	405.3	6.4	
    Castilla - La Mancha	1,491.1	105.4	564.0	404.2	213.3	2.1	200.5	1.6	
    Cataluña	5,540.2	104.4	1,872.8	1,419.9	993.4	0.2	1,130.9	18.6	
    Comunidad Valenciana	3,638.2	117.3	1,088.0	1,179.4	630.6	1.8	612.8	8.3	
    Extremadura	875.3	56.1	260.1	318.0	116.2	1.8	122.0	1.1	
    Galicia	2,348.3	56.2	908.5	602.2	373.1	1.2	401.6	5.4	
    Madrid (Comunidad de)	4,730.8	83.3	1,441.2	936.9	1,000.9	1.1	1,251.5	15.9	
    Murcia (Región de)	1,013.4	55.5	354.4	244.8	183.7	1.2	170.5	3.3	
    Navarra (Comunidad Foral de)	476.3	3.5	170.2	97.3	79.2	..	124.5	1.6	
    País Vasco	1,805.9	12.6	651.0	314.2	313.3	2.8	509.2	2.7	
    Rioja (La)	242.3	1.4	102.1	50.1	40.2	..	47.7	0.7	
    Ceuta and Melilla	105.4	5.6	27.3	26.9	26.5	0.2	18.5	0.4	
males	
    Total	17,174.5	329.0	5,706.8	4,545.2	3,063.8	21.2	3,451.5	57.0	
    Andalucía	2,983.0	98.2	1,152.5	740.8	478.8	5.5	498.7	8.5	
    Aragón	514.8	7.5	186.0	109.2	93.3	0.2	117.5	0.9	
    Asturias (Principado de)	445.8	1.9	164.0	109.0	76.0	1.9	92.0	1.0	
    Balears (Illes)	377.6	4.6	102.3	133.0	82.6	0.2	54.2	0.8	
    Canarias	752.8	24.8	250.0	193.8	149.2	3.0	129.1	2.9	
    Cantabria	226.3	0.2	70.0	61.2	41.6	0.6	52.3	0.3	
    Castilla y León	1,042.7	8.5	412.4	243.7	176.6	2.6	194.8	4.0	
    Castilla - La Mancha	740.9	36.5	276.6	222.4	108.3	1.1	95.2	0.9	
    Cataluña	2,702.1	29.7	858.3	752.3	476.2	0.1	572.5	13.1	
    Comunidad Valenciana	1,783.7	32.2	500.9	630.2	307.5	0.8	306.3	5.8	
    Extremadura	431.8	18.5	125.1	170.3	57.4	0.2	59.3	0.9	
    Galicia	1,119.2	14.8	397.3	327.5	184.5	0.7	190.7	3.8	
    Madrid (Comunidad de)	2,263.0	27.8	616.2	474.3	497.8	1.0	636.7	9.2	
    Murcia (Región de)	503.1	16.5	173.9	132.3	92.6	1.0	85.1	1.7	
    Navarra (Comunidad Foral de)	236.3	2.0	78.8	52.6	39.5	..	62.5	1.0	
    País Vasco	878.6	3.4	283.0	149.8	167.3	2.2	271.5	1.4	
    Rioja (La)	120.8	0.7	49.0	27.8	19.7	..	23.1	0.6	
    Ceuta and Melilla	52.0	1.0	10.6	14.9	15.1	0.2	9.9	0.3	
females	
    Total	18,040.8	711.4	6,729.5	4,071.5	3,094.3	17.5	3,384.6	31.9	
    Andalucía	3,121.3	209.2	1,262.8	694.0	465.3	5.4	480.1	4.6	
    Aragón	528.8	12.5	227.5	96.8	88.2	0.2	102.5	1.1	
    Asturias (Principado de)	491.7	3.4	220.7	106.6	78.4	1.1	81.5	0.1	
    Balears (Illes)	383.3	12.2	121.6	104.2	87.0	0.0	57.8	0.6	
    Canarias	762.8	36.9	252.7	181.1	156.5	2.9	130.9	1.8	
    Cantabria	240.9	0.8	95.6	51.7	47.2	0.7	44.8	0.2	
    Castilla y León	1,076.2	18.4	478.6	197.6	167.0	1.7	210.4	2.5	
    Castilla - La Mancha	750.2	69.0	287.5	181.8	105.0	1.0	105.2	0.7	
    Cataluña	2,838.1	74.7	1,014.5	667.6	517.2	0.1	558.4	5.6	
    Comunidad Valenciana	1,854.5	85.1	587.0	549.2	323.1	1.0	306.5	2.5	
    Extremadura	443.6	37.6	135.0	147.6	58.8	1.7	62.7	0.2	
    Galicia	1,229.0	41.4	511.3	274.8	188.6	0.5	210.9	1.6	
    Madrid (Comunidad de)	2,467.9	55.5	824.9	462.7	503.1	0.1	614.7	6.7	
    Murcia (Región de)	510.2	38.9	180.5	112.5	91.1	0.3	85.4	1.6	
    Navarra (Comunidad Foral de)	240.0	1.5	91.4	44.7	39.8	..	62.0	0.6	
    País Vasco	927.4	9.1	368.1	164.4	146.1	0.7	237.7	1.3	
    Rioja (La)	121.5	0.7	53.2	22.4	20.5	..	24.7	0.1	
    Ceuta and Melilla	53.4	4.6	16.8	12.1	11.4	..	8.6	0.1	
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