Economically Active Population Survey Results by Autonomous Communities Active population which have received some type of non-regulated educational course during the last 12 months by absolute value/percentage, sex, level of education reached and autonomous community. Units: absolute value/percentage National total Andalucía Aragón Asturias (Principado de) Balears (Illes) Canarias Cantabria Castilla y León Castilla-La Mancha Cataluña Comunidad Valenciana Extremadura Galicia Madrid (Comunidad de) Murcia (Región de) Navarra (Comunidad Foral de) País Vasco Rioja (La) Ceuta y Melilla Absolute values in thousands Both sexes Total 2,438.0 359.6 87.5 31.2 79.2 103.1 5.3 179.1 95.3 400.9 266.1 68.3 169.3 262.4 89.5 53.9 171.0 9.1 7.4 Illiterates 1.5 .. 0.4 .. 0.1 0.3 .. .. .. 0.5 .. .. .. .. .. .. 0.2 .. .. (1) Primary education 165.1 32.7 5.5 0.9 3.3 8.0 0.7 14.6 8.5 26.7 13.4 3.3 9.7 14.3 7.2 3.4 12.4 0.6 0.2 (2) Secondary education 1st stage 508.3 73.8 16.6 5.5 20.4 19.0 1.0 35.7 26.0 91.5 72.2 22.8 45.5 29.6 19.4 7.5 19.3 0.8 1.6 (3) Secondary education 2nd stage 539.2 79.0 17.2 7.5 22.2 27.5 0.6 34.9 22.6 92.7 62.8 12.1 36.2 55.1 20.5 11.2 33.8 1.8 1.6 Post secondary and higher education 1,223.9 174.1 47.8 17.3 33.3 48.4 3.0 93.9 38.2 189.5 117.8 30.2 77.9 163.4 42.4 31.7 105.3 5.9 4.0 Males Total 1,248.7 191.7 43.4 16.2 38.7 49.1 2.9 94.9 46.5 190.4 143.7 36.3 85.0 138.2 48.7 28.1 85.8 4.8 4.5 Illiterates 0.7 .. .. .. .. 0.2 .. .. .. 0.5 .. .. .. .. .. .. .. .. .. (1) Primary education 106.9 22.5 3.6 0.5 2.3 3.9 0.3 10.9 4.3 15.4 8.0 2.6 7.1 10.4 5.1 2.4 6.9 0.4 0.2 (2) Secondary education 1st stage 300.0 38.7 8.2 2.4 12.4 8.8 0.7 22.8 16.2 51.3 48.4 11.9 28.4 19.4 12.7 5.1 11.1 0.5 1.0 (3) Secondary education 2nd stage 280.3 43.9 9.6 4.1 10.3 13.7 0.2 19.0 11.1 41.5 33.9 6.6 18.6 31.2 10.4 5.7 18.4 1.0 1.3 Post secondary and higher education 560.9 86.5 22.0 9.2 13.7 22.4 1.8 42.1 14.9 81.7 53.4 15.2 30.9 77.3 20.6 14.9 49.3 2.9 2.0 Females Total 1,189.3 168.0 44.0 15.0 40.5 54.1 2.4 84.2 48.7 210.5 122.4 32.0 84.3 124.2 40.8 25.8 85.2 4.3 2.9 Illiterates 0.8 .. 0.4 .. 0.1 0.1 .. .. .. .. .. .. .. .. .. .. 0.2 .. .. (1) Primary education 58.3 10.2 1.9 0.3 1.0 4.0 0.3 3.7 4.2 11.3 5.4 0.6 2.6 3.9 2.1 0.9 5.5 0.1 0.1 (2) Secondary education 1st stage 208.3 35.1 8.4 3.1 8.0 10.2 0.3 12.9 9.8 40.2 23.7 10.9 17.1 10.2 6.7 2.5 8.2 0.3 0.6 (3) Secondary education 2nd stage 258.9 35.1 7.6 3.4 11.9 13.8 0.5 15.8 11.5 51.2 28.9 5.5 17.6 24.0 10.1 5.5 15.4 0.8 0.3 Post secondary and higher education 663.0 87.6 25.8 8.2 19.5 25.9 1.2 51.8 23.3 107.8 64.4 15.0 47.0 86.1 21.8 16.9 55.9 3.0 1.9 Percentages Both sexes Total 100.0 100.0 100.0 100.0 100.0 100.0 100.0 100.0 100.0 100.0 100.0 100.0 100.0 100.0 100.0 100.0 100.0 100.0 100.0 Illiterates 0.1 .. 0.4 .. 0.2 0.3 .. .. .. 0.1 .. .. .. .. .. .. 0.1 .. .. (1) Primary education 6.8 9.1 6.3 2.8 4.1 7.7 12.4 8.2 8.9 6.7 5.0 4.8 5.7 5.4 8.0 6.3 7.3 6.3 3.2 (2) Secondary education 1st stage 20.8 20.5 19.0 17.7 25.7 18.4 19.1 19.9 27.3 22.8 27.1 33.3 26.9 11.3 21.7 14.0 11.3 8.7 21.7 (3) Secondary education 2nd stage 22.1 22.0 19.6 24.0 28.0 26.7 12.0 19.5 23.7 23.1 23.6 17.7 21.4 21.0 22.9 20.8 19.8 19.9 21.4 Post secondary and higher education 50.2 48.4 54.7 55.6 42.0 46.9 56.5 52.4 40.1 47.3 44.3 44.2 46.0 62.3 47.4 58.9 61.6 65.0 53.8 Males Total 100.0 100.0 100.0 100.0 100.0 100.0 100.0 100.0 100.0 100.0 100.0 100.0 100.0 100.0 100.0 100.0 100.0 100.0 100.0 Illiterates 0.1 .. .. .. .. 0.3 .. .. .. 0.3 .. .. .. .. .. .. .. .. .. (1) Primary education 8.6 11.7 8.3 3.2 5.8 8.0 10.8 11.5 9.3 8.1 5.5 7.2 8.3 7.5 10.4 8.7 8.1 9.2 3.5 (2) Secondary education 1st stage 24.0 20.2 18.8 14.8 32.1 17.9 22.8 24.1 34.8 26.9 33.7 32.8 33.4 14.0 26.0 18.0 13.0 9.9 22.7 (3) Secondary education 2nd stage 22.4 22.9 22.1 25.4 26.6 28.0 5.9 20.1 23.9 21.8 23.6 18.1 21.8 22.5 21.3 20.3 21.4 20.5 28.2 Post secondary and higher education 44.9 45.2 50.7 56.6 35.5 45.7 60.4 44.4 32.0 42.9 37.2 41.9 36.4 55.9 42.2 53.0 57.5 60.4 45.7 Females Total 100.0 100.0 100.0 100.0 100.0 100.0 100.0 100.0 100.0 100.0 100.0 100.0 100.0 100.0 100.0 100.0 100.0 100.0 100.0 Illiterates 0.1 .. 0.9 .. 0.3 0.2 .. .. .. .. .. .. .. .. .. .. 0.2 .. .. (1) Primary education 4.9 6.1 4.3 2.3 2.5 7.4 14.4 4.4 8.6 5.4 4.4 2.0 3.1 3.1 5.1 3.7 6.5 3.0 2.8 (2) Secondary education 1st stage 17.5 20.9 19.1 20.8 19.6 18.9 14.6 15.3 20.2 19.1 19.4 34.0 20.3 8.2 16.5 9.6 9.6 7.5 20.1 (3) Secondary education 2nd stage 21.8 20.9 17.2 22.5 29.3 25.4 19.4 18.8 23.6 24.3 23.6 17.3 20.9 19.3 24.9 21.5 18.1 19.2 11.1 Post secondary and higher education 55.7 52.1 58.5 54.4 48.2 48.0 51.6 61.5 47.7 51.2 52.6 46.8 55.7 69.3 53.5 65.3 65.7 70.3 66.0 Notes: (1) includes training and job placement studies which do not require secondary education 1st stage degrees (2) includes training and job placement studies which do not require secondary education 2nd stage degrees. It also includes Social Guarantee Programme studies. (3) includes training and job placement studies which require secondary education 2nd stage degrees Source: National Statistics Institute