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	35,810.8	1,015.3	12,140.0	8,834.7	6,453.7	35.6	7,234.3	97.3	
    Andalucía	6,211.2	294.9	2,412.5	1,450.0	1,019.8	10.0	1,010.7	13.3	
    Aragón	1,054.9	17.9	408.3	202.0	197.1	0.2	226.7	2.7	
    Asturias (Principado de)	937.9	4.7	372.8	215.5	155.6	3.1	185.0	1.2	
    Balears (Illes)	782.3	18.2	221.6	256.6	177.9	0.8	106.6	0.6	
    Canarias	1,555.0	67.7	455.7	430.3	311.4	2.7	282.3	5.0	
    Cantabria	472.4	0.9	166.1	111.3	94.3	1.1	98.4	0.4	
    Castilla y León	2,126.6	24.8	856.7	458.2	357.3	2.6	421.3	5.8	
    Castilla - La Mancha	1,523.2	94.3	565.3	424.6	229.2	2.6	205.8	1.6	
    Cataluña	5,654.8	126.2	1,825.1	1,426.4	1,040.7	0.4	1,211.3	24.6	
    Comunidad Valenciana	3,737.8	114.7	1,045.9	1,168.0	699.6	3.6	694.6	11.3	
    Extremadura	881.8	51.6	273.8	311.3	122.0	2.1	119.7	1.3	
    Galicia	2,357.4	57.5	818.2	667.7	385.8	1.2	420.5	6.4	
    Madrid (Comunidad de)	4,827.5	71.8	1,417.9	981.8	998.0	1.2	1,342.6	14.1	
    Murcia (Región de)	1,041.6	45.5	379.1	237.3	192.2	2.1	182.4	3.0	
    Navarra (Comunidad Foral de)	482.3	3.8	170.9	96.2	83.6	0.3	126.5	1.0	
    País Vasco	1,811.0	13.3	619.2	314.8	329.7	1.4	528.3	4.2	
    Rioja (La)	247.5	1.2	100.8	53.8	37.0	..	54.3	0.4	
    Ceuta and Melilla	105.7	6.2	30.1	28.9	22.8	0.1	17.2	0.5	
males	
    Total	17,488.1	324.6	5,548.8	4,681.9	3,238.0	19.4	3,613.1	62.4	
    Andalucía	3,038.9	91.0	1,138.5	761.2	516.9	4.2	518.0	9.2	
    Aragón	521.0	7.2	186.2	107.1	103.2	0.1	115.7	1.5	
    Asturias (Principado de)	446.0	1.6	154.5	114.7	80.1	2.7	91.7	0.8	
    Balears (Illes)	388.7	5.1	99.5	146.0	87.7	0.4	49.5	0.4	
    Canarias	772.8	26.8	227.3	222.2	154.2	1.2	137.5	3.5	
    Cantabria	229.0	0.2	71.4	58.9	46.4	0.7	51.0	0.4	
    Castilla y León	1,046.9	8.9	395.9	252.6	184.0	1.8	199.9	3.8	
    Castilla - La Mancha	758.2	31.4	277.2	231.4	117.6	1.0	98.5	1.0	
    Cataluña	2,763.6	40.0	830.1	761.8	505.7	0.2	610.3	15.5	
    Comunidad Valenciana	1,836.5	37.1	469.2	619.7	349.5	1.5	352.4	7.1	
    Extremadura	435.1	17.2	131.5	169.9	60.3	0.7	54.4	1.0	
    Galicia	1,124.1	14.6	356.6	359.3	191.6	0.7	197.2	4.2	
    Madrid (Comunidad de)	2,313.2	21.5	620.4	492.0	502.6	1.2	667.6	7.8	
    Murcia (Región de)	518.4	13.7	182.3	130.5	95.5	1.9	92.5	2.0	
    Navarra (Comunidad Foral de)	239.3	1.9	80.0	51.4	42.5	0.0	62.8	0.7	
    País Vasco	880.9	4.9	267.0	156.2	171.1	1.1	278.0	2.6	
    Rioja (La)	123.6	0.5	47.9	30.7	17.3	..	26.9	0.3	
    Ceuta and Melilla	52.0	1.0	13.3	16.3	11.9	0.1	9.0	0.5	
females	
    Total	18,322.7	690.7	6,591.2	4,152.8	3,215.7	16.2	3,621.3	34.9	
    Andalucía	3,172.3	203.9	1,274.0	688.8	502.9	5.8	492.8	4.1	
    Aragón	533.9	10.7	222.1	94.9	93.9	0.1	111.0	1.2	
    Asturias (Principado de)	491.9	3.1	218.3	100.8	75.5	0.4	93.3	0.5	
    Balears (Illes)	393.6	13.1	122.1	110.6	90.1	0.5	57.0	0.2	
    Canarias	782.2	40.8	228.4	208.0	157.2	1.6	144.7	1.5	
    Cantabria	243.4	0.7	94.6	52.3	47.8	0.4	47.4	..	
    Castilla y León	1,079.7	15.9	460.8	205.5	173.3	0.8	221.4	2.0	
    Castilla - La Mancha	765.1	62.9	288.1	193.1	111.6	1.6	107.2	0.6	
    Cataluña	2,891.2	86.2	995.1	664.6	535.0	0.3	601.0	9.1	
    Comunidad Valenciana	1,901.2	77.6	576.7	548.3	350.2	2.1	342.2	4.2	
    Extremadura	446.7	34.4	142.3	141.4	61.6	1.3	65.3	0.3	
    Galicia	1,233.3	42.9	461.7	308.5	194.2	0.6	223.3	2.1	
    Madrid (Comunidad de)	2,514.3	50.3	797.5	489.9	495.4	..	675.0	6.2	
    Murcia (Región de)	523.1	31.8	196.8	106.8	96.7	0.2	89.9	0.9	
    Navarra (Comunidad Foral de)	243.0	1.9	90.9	44.8	41.1	0.3	63.7	0.3	
    País Vasco	930.1	8.4	352.2	158.6	158.6	0.4	250.3	1.5	
    Rioja (La)	123.9	0.7	52.9	23.2	19.6	..	27.4	0.1	
    Ceuta and Melilla	53.7	5.2	16.7	12.6	10.9	..	8.2	..	
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