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	20,184.5	105.6	3,873.3	5,832.7	4,316.3	26.9	5,942.3	87.5	
    Andalucía	3,331.5	26.5	931.7	923.0	626.8	7.4	803.9	12.3	
    Aragón	573.0	3.5	107.8	131.5	141.3	0.2	186.4	2.3	
    Asturias (Principado de)	435.6	0.0	79.4	124.2	86.8	2.5	141.6	1.0	
    Balears (Illes)	493.7	1.7	75.0	193.5	130.4	0.6	91.9	0.6	
    Canarias	915.8	6.9	192.2	271.8	212.0	2.1	226.5	4.3	
    Cantabria	251.4	..	40.4	71.6	58.8	0.9	79.4	0.3	
    Castilla y León	1,074.2	1.0	216.2	289.9	225.7	2.2	333.9	5.3	
    Castilla - La Mancha	793.0	4.8	177.9	289.6	149.4	2.0	167.8	1.5	
    Cataluña	3,440.0	31.2	584.0	986.9	764.4	0.4	1,050.8	22.2	
    Comunidad Valenciana	2,178.2	8.8	302.2	797.2	487.9	2.8	568.9	10.3	
    Extremadura	448.1	3.1	74.5	196.1	74.8	1.4	96.9	1.3	
    Galicia	1,254.2	3.8	209.8	436.0	250.4	1.0	347.1	6.1	
    Madrid (Comunidad de)	2,900.2	5.9	472.1	636.3	673.0	0.5	1,100.5	11.9	
    Murcia (Región de)	607.2	5.4	152.6	168.7	130.4	1.6	145.7	2.9	
    Navarra (Comunidad Foral de)	276.1	0.7	52.1	63.0	55.9	0.3	103.2	0.9	
    País Vasco	1,021.1	1.5	165.5	199.0	211.0	1.0	439.4	3.6	
    Rioja (La)	135.9	0.1	30.2	38.0	23.5	..	43.8	0.4	
    Ceuta and Melilla	55.3	0.7	9.7	16.2	13.7	0.1	14.6	0.5	
males	
    Total	11,905.1	63.0	2,582.2	3,722.1	2,408.9	16.0	3,057.4	55.5	
    Andalucía	2,042.1	14.1	625.8	601.6	361.1	3.6	427.7	8.2	
    Aragón	344.2	2.6	73.1	86.6	81.3	0.1	99.1	1.3	
    Asturias (Principado de)	256.7	0.0	50.6	80.5	51.6	2.2	71.4	0.5	
    Balears (Illes)	283.2	0.0	46.3	123.1	69.5	0.2	43.6	0.4	
    Canarias	538.3	4.6	130.5	169.7	114.2	1.2	115.4	2.8	
    Cantabria	151.2	..	27.1	47.0	33.1	0.6	43.0	0.3	
    Castilla y León	653.7	0.8	151.8	195.4	133.8	1.5	166.8	3.5	
    Castilla - La Mancha	504.3	2.8	130.6	197.3	88.0	0.9	83.8	1.0	
    Cataluña	1,970.8	21.5	384.1	609.7	402.7	0.2	538.9	13.7	
    Comunidad Valenciana	1,277.4	3.8	192.0	508.2	267.2	1.5	298.4	6.4	
    Extremadura	278.2	1.7	52.4	133.9	42.3	0.5	46.5	1.0	
    Galicia	704.1	1.0	121.1	274.9	138.3	0.6	163.9	4.2	
    Madrid (Comunidad de)	1,649.6	3.8	320.7	382.6	375.1	0.5	560.4	6.4	
    Murcia (Región de)	373.0	4.5	102.6	110.8	74.2	1.4	77.4	2.0	
    Navarra (Comunidad Foral de)	164.5	0.5	35.7	40.7	32.3	0.0	54.6	0.7	
    País Vasco	595.0	1.0	109.2	122.1	124.2	1.0	235.3	2.3	
    Rioja (La)	83.8	0.1	21.9	26.7	12.0	..	23.0	0.3	
    Ceuta and Melilla	34.9	0.2	6.7	11.2	8.1	0.1	8.1	0.5	
females	
    Total	8,279.4	42.6	1,291.1	2,110.6	1,907.4	10.9	2,885.0	32.0	
    Andalucía	1,289.5	12.4	305.9	321.4	265.7	3.8	376.1	4.1	
    Aragón	228.8	0.9	34.6	44.9	59.9	0.1	87.3	1.1	
    Asturias (Principado de)	178.8	..	28.8	43.7	35.3	0.3	70.2	0.5	
    Balears (Illes)	210.5	1.7	28.7	70.4	61.0	0.4	48.2	0.2	
    Canarias	377.5	2.3	61.8	102.1	97.8	1.0	111.1	1.5	
    Cantabria	100.2	..	13.3	24.6	25.7	0.2	36.4	..	
    Castilla y León	420.5	0.3	64.4	94.5	91.9	0.6	167.0	1.8	
    Castilla - La Mancha	288.7	2.1	47.3	92.3	61.4	1.1	84.1	0.6	
    Cataluña	1,469.2	9.7	199.9	377.3	361.7	0.3	511.9	8.5	
    Comunidad Valenciana	900.8	5.1	110.3	289.0	220.8	1.3	270.5	3.9	
    Extremadura	169.9	1.4	22.2	62.2	32.5	0.9	50.4	0.3	
    Galicia	550.2	2.7	88.7	161.1	112.1	0.4	183.3	1.9	
    Madrid (Comunidad de)	1,250.5	2.0	151.3	253.7	297.9	..	540.1	5.5	
    Murcia (Región de)	234.2	0.9	50.0	57.8	56.2	0.2	68.3	0.8	
    Navarra (Comunidad Foral de)	111.6	0.3	16.4	22.3	23.6	0.3	48.6	0.2	
    País Vasco	426.1	0.5	56.3	76.9	86.9	..	204.1	1.3	
    Rioja (La)	52.1	..	8.3	11.4	11.5	..	20.8	0.1	
    Ceuta and Melilla	20.4	0.5	3.0	5.0	5.6	..	6.5	..	
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