Survey on Adult Population Involvement in Learning Activities Linguistic and information technology knowledge. Absolute values Linguistic knowledge of persons, by language they are able to use, sex and highest level of studies completed. Units: persons Total Spanish Catalan Basque Valenciano Galician English French German Italian Portuguese Others BOTH SEXES Total 21,153,150 3,379,081 1,917,397 271,451 332,133 234,032 8,554,056 4,308,780 714,857 692,026 311,244 438,094 First stage secondary education and lower 5,964,065 1,661,564 935,620 75,624 167,644 97,986 1,457,582 964,704 214,359 170,384 100,407 118,190 Intermediate-level studies 5,324,232 802,022 461,018 53,363 73,414 57,526 2,259,760 1,128,216 134,208 143,165 76,359 135,179 Tertiary level and university studies 9,864,854 915,495 520,759 142,464 91,075 78,520 4,836,714 2,215,859 366,290 378,477 134,478 184,724 MALES Total 10,962,688 1,824,454 979,542 123,419 158,458 98,590 4,352,074 2,202,325 394,592 415,735 183,137 230,363 First stage secondary education and lower 3,257,258 940,209 481,158 47,147 77,261 33,873 770,722 541,689 142,018 108,333 55,261 59,587 Intermediate-level studies 2,798,243 425,213 224,495 28,703 . . 1,187,886 597,582 67,167 91,396 49,161 65,392 Tertiary level and university studies 4,907,188 459,033 273,889 47,569 47,114 37,551 2,393,466 1,063,054 185,407 216,005 78,715 105,384 FEMALES Total 10,190,462 1,554,627 937,855 148,032 173,676 135,442 4,201,982 2,106,455 320,265 276,291 128,107 207,730 First stage secondary education and lower 2,706,807 721,356 454,463 28,477 90,383 64,113 686,860 423,015 72,342 62,050 45,146 58,603 Intermediate-level studies 2,525,989 376,810 236,523 24,660 39,332 30,360 1,071,874 530,635 67,041 51,769 . 69,787 Tertiary level and university studies 4,957,666 456,461 246,869 94,895 43,960 40,969 2,443,248 1,152,806 180,883 162,472 55,763 79,340 Notes: .Data protected by statistical secrecy 1) The Intermediate-level studies category is comprised of: post-secondary education and intermediate-level technical-professional education. This may include up to seven languages per person, with the exception of mother tongues. The table shows the languages that appear most frequently. Data referring to the 12 months prior to the date of the survey. The symbol '.' shall be deemed as data which cannot be provided since it may be affected by sampling errors. Source: National Statistics Institute