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	18,821.9	78.9	3,813.6	5,603.9	3,810.5	28.6	5,412.1	74.3	
    Andalucía	3,174.5	26.5	893.8	918.0	553.0	7.1	764.6	11.4	
    Aragón	519.2	1.6	101.2	132.1	113.5	0.4	168.6	1.9	
    Asturias (Principado de)	432.5	0.2	84.5	124.0	91.6	2.8	128.7	0.7	
    Balears (Illes)	426.2	1.7	70.6	160.9	108.7	0.1	83.2	0.9	
    Canarias	870.2	6.1	219.5	239.2	190.5	4.6	206.4	3.9	
    Cantabria	240.5	0.0	39.0	70.5	53.5	1.0	76.2	0.4	
    Castilla y León	1,057.1	1.2	222.7	281.2	212.6	3.5	330.1	5.8	
    Castilla - La Mancha	733.0	6.7	168.1	265.9	130.6	1.8	158.4	1.5	
    Cataluña	3,154.3	10.1	550.0	980.9	676.6	0.2	919.7	16.8	
    Comunidad Valenciana	2,002.3	8.4	308.5	801.5	396.5	1.0	479.9	6.5	
    Extremadura	454.7	2.7	72.0	205.3	72.4	1.3	99.9	1.1	
    Galicia	1,265.2	1.5	255.5	423.3	240.6	1.1	338.0	5.1	
    Madrid (Comunidad de)	2,535.5	5.7	439.3	543.9	578.7	0.5	955.4	12.0	
    Murcia (Región de)	528.5	3.9	125.3	156.6	106.6	0.8	133.2	2.0	
    Navarra (Comunidad Foral de)	254.9	0.5	50.6	57.1	47.6	..	97.9	1.2	
    País Vasco	997.6	1.3	179.0	194.8	198.8	2.4	419.3	2.0	
    Rioja (La)	121.1	0.1	26.0	35.2	22.2	..	36.9	0.7	
    Ceuta and Melilla	54.6	0.8	7.9	13.4	16.4	0.1	15.6	0.4	
males	
    Total	11,199.1	43.7	2,551.3	3,586.1	2,145.8	16.6	2,809.5	46.0	
    Andalucía	1,953.5	13.8	614.0	589.3	319.8	4.0	405.7	6.8	
    Aragón	315.4	1.2	66.9	86.2	66.8	0.2	93.3	0.8	
    Asturias (Principado de)	255.6	0.2	51.8	78.3	52.1	1.7	71.1	0.5	
    Balears (Illes)	245.8	0.3	44.6	102.0	58.6	0.1	39.5	0.5	
    Canarias	518.7	3.6	148.4	148.9	105.9	2.4	107.2	2.2	
    Cantabria	146.0	0.0	24.7	48.3	29.4	0.5	42.9	0.2	
    Castilla y León	645.3	1.0	157.7	189.1	127.5	2.3	164.3	3.4	
    Castilla - La Mancha	465.2	4.1	120.8	182.7	77.3	0.9	78.5	0.8	
    Cataluña	1,821.4	5.8	359.9	606.5	360.0	0.1	477.8	11.3	
    Comunidad Valenciana	1,192.2	3.0	203.0	520.6	216.8	0.6	244.0	4.1	
    Extremadura	283.1	1.8	50.6	137.3	41.5	0.1	51.0	0.9	
    Galicia	719.5	0.9	147.2	271.9	131.8	0.6	163.6	3.5	
    Madrid (Comunidad de)	1,467.8	3.8	302.1	336.4	323.9	0.4	494.7	6.4	
    Murcia (Región de)	325.8	2.7	83.6	103.9	62.7	0.6	70.9	1.5	
    Navarra (Comunidad Foral de)	150.9	0.4	32.9	37.9	27.9	..	51.1	0.9	
    País Vasco	579.9	0.6	118.0	112.6	119.4	1.9	226.3	1.0	
    Rioja (La)	75.0	0.1	18.9	23.7	13.1	..	18.6	0.6	
    Ceuta and Melilla	38.1	0.3	6.2	10.5	11.6	0.1	9.0	0.4	
females	
    Total	7,622.8	35.3	1,262.3	2,017.8	1,664.7	12.0	2,602.5	28.3	
    Andalucía	1,221.0	12.6	279.9	328.7	233.2	3.1	358.9	4.5	
    Aragón	203.8	0.4	34.3	45.9	46.7	0.2	75.3	1.1	
    Asturias (Principado de)	176.9	0.1	32.6	45.8	39.5	1.1	57.6	0.1	
    Balears (Illes)	180.4	1.3	26.0	58.9	50.1	..	43.7	0.4	
    Canarias	351.5	2.5	71.1	90.3	84.7	2.2	99.1	1.7	
    Cantabria	94.5	0.0	14.3	22.2	24.1	0.5	33.3	0.1	
    Castilla y León	411.8	0.2	65.0	92.1	85.1	1.2	165.8	2.4	
    Castilla - La Mancha	267.8	2.6	47.3	83.2	53.3	0.8	80.0	0.7	
    Cataluña	1,332.9	4.3	190.1	374.3	316.6	0.1	441.9	5.4	
    Comunidad Valenciana	810.1	5.5	105.4	280.9	179.7	0.4	235.9	2.4	
    Extremadura	171.6	0.9	21.5	68.0	30.9	1.2	48.9	0.2	
    Galicia	545.7	0.6	108.4	151.4	108.9	0.5	174.4	1.6	
    Madrid (Comunidad de)	1,067.7	1.8	137.2	207.5	254.8	0.1	460.7	5.6	
    Murcia (Región de)	202.6	1.2	41.8	52.8	43.9	0.2	62.3	0.5	
    Navarra (Comunidad Foral de)	104.0	0.1	17.7	19.3	19.8	..	46.8	0.3	
    País Vasco	417.7	0.7	61.0	82.1	79.4	0.5	193.0	1.0	
    Rioja (La)	46.2	..	7.2	11.5	9.1	..	18.3	0.1	
    Ceuta and Melilla	16.6	0.5	1.6	2.9	4.9	..	6.6	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