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	19,538.1	97.3	4,023.7	5,707.4	4,036.6	29.0	5,568.4	75.7	
    Andalucía	3,227.1	29.1	921.0	914.7	571.7	7.5	771.4	11.7	
    Aragón	552.8	2.6	110.0	137.4	123.1	0.4	177.4	1.9	
    Asturias (Principado de)	433.3	0.2	86.1	123.7	91.4	2.8	128.4	0.7	
    Balears (Illes)	476.2	1.8	77.4	177.0	125.0	0.1	93.9	0.9	
    Canarias	889.2	6.2	218.4	240.3	205.3	4.8	210.2	4.0	
    Cantabria	245.0	0.1	40.1	71.7	54.4	1.0	77.3	0.4	
    Castilla y León	1,053.8	1.4	229.7	277.3	212.6	3.4	323.6	5.7	
    Castilla - La Mancha	765.0	7.9	178.6	273.0	139.5	1.8	162.7	1.5	
    Cataluña	3,339.5	18.8	610.2	1,012.3	710.5	0.2	970.2	17.3	
    Comunidad Valenciana	2,081.0	8.7	325.0	814.5	429.4	1.0	495.8	6.6	
    Extremadura	438.3	2.8	70.8	197.5	69.5	1.2	95.4	1.1	
    Galicia	1,225.2	2.0	255.5	406.8	232.9	1.0	322.0	5.1	
    Madrid (Comunidad de)	2,777.6	6.9	482.9	588.3	660.7	0.5	1,026.1	12.4	
    Murcia (Región de)	576.6	5.5	145.0	167.6	116.8	0.8	138.8	2.1	
    Navarra (Comunidad Foral de)	268.4	0.6	53.6	60.5	50.9	..	101.5	1.3	
    País Vasco	1,007.8	1.8	182.4	196.3	202.6	2.4	420.4	2.0	
    Rioja (La)	129.3	0.1	29.7	36.0	24.7	..	38.1	0.7	
    Ceuta and Melilla	52.2	0.9	7.4	12.7	15.7	0.1	15.0	0.4	
males	
    Total	11,629.2	57.2	2,693.1	3,646.3	2,267.1	17.2	2,900.8	47.6	
    Andalucía	1,982.6	15.0	629.1	586.5	330.4	4.6	410.0	7.1	
    Aragón	336.9	2.0	72.6	89.8	72.3	0.2	99.2	0.8	
    Asturias (Principado de)	256.3	0.2	52.9	78.0	52.0	1.7	71.0	0.5	
    Balears (Illes)	275.0	0.5	49.4	111.9	66.8	0.1	45.8	0.6	
    Canarias	526.6	3.8	147.8	148.8	112.6	2.5	108.9	2.3	
    Cantabria	148.7	0.0	25.4	49.1	29.9	0.5	43.6	0.2	
    Castilla y León	644.9	1.1	162.2	187.1	127.3	2.3	161.5	3.4	
    Castilla - La Mancha	486.9	5.2	128.3	187.1	82.9	0.9	81.5	0.8	
    Cataluña	1,939.8	12.3	406.7	628.0	377.7	0.1	503.1	11.9	
    Comunidad Valenciana	1,241.7	3.2	213.1	529.4	235.5	0.6	255.7	4.2	
    Extremadura	273.2	1.9	49.6	132.0	39.8	0.1	48.8	0.9	
    Galicia	696.2	1.4	146.5	260.6	127.8	0.6	155.7	3.5	
    Madrid (Comunidad de)	1,599.7	4.6	329.4	359.4	366.6	0.4	532.5	6.7	
    Murcia (Región de)	357.3	4.1	97.8	110.9	68.3	0.6	73.9	1.6	
    Navarra (Comunidad Foral de)	159.2	0.5	34.8	39.9	29.5	..	53.6	0.9	
    País Vasco	589.3	1.0	120.4	113.9	122.7	1.9	228.4	1.0	
    Rioja (La)	80.3	0.1	21.5	24.2	14.4	..	19.5	0.6	
    Ceuta and Melilla	34.6	0.3	5.7	9.5	10.5	0.1	8.1	0.3	
females	
    Total	7,908.9	40.1	1,330.6	2,061.2	1,769.5	11.8	2,667.6	28.1	
    Andalucía	1,244.5	14.1	291.9	328.2	241.3	2.9	361.5	4.6	
    Aragón	215.8	0.6	37.4	47.6	50.9	0.2	78.2	1.1	
    Asturias (Principado de)	177.0	0.1	33.3	45.6	39.4	1.1	57.4	0.1	
    Balears (Illes)	201.2	1.4	28.0	65.1	58.2	..	48.1	0.4	
    Canarias	362.5	2.4	70.6	91.5	92.7	2.2	101.3	1.7	
    Cantabria	96.3	0.0	14.7	22.6	24.6	0.5	33.7	0.1	
    Castilla y León	408.9	0.2	67.5	90.2	85.3	1.2	162.1	2.3	
    Castilla - La Mancha	278.1	2.6	50.3	85.9	56.6	0.8	81.2	0.7	
    Cataluña	1,399.8	6.5	203.5	384.3	332.8	0.1	467.1	5.4	
    Comunidad Valenciana	839.3	5.5	112.0	285.1	193.9	0.4	240.2	2.3	
    Extremadura	165.1	0.9	21.1	65.4	29.7	1.1	46.6	0.2	
    Galicia	529.0	0.6	108.9	146.2	105.0	0.4	166.3	1.5	
    Madrid (Comunidad de)	1,177.9	2.2	153.5	228.8	294.0	0.1	493.6	5.6	
    Murcia (Región de)	219.4	1.4	47.2	56.7	48.5	0.2	64.9	0.5	
    Navarra (Comunidad Foral de)	109.1	0.1	18.8	20.6	21.4	..	47.8	0.3	
    País Vasco	418.5	0.8	62.0	82.3	79.8	0.5	192.0	1.0	
    Rioja (La)	48.9	..	8.1	11.8	10.3	..	18.6	0.1	
    Ceuta and Melilla	17.6	0.6	1.8	3.2	5.2	..	6.9	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