Economically Active Population Survey
  Provincial results
Absolute values. Active population by province 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	
Total	20,184.5	105.6	3,873.3	5,832.7	4,316.3	26.9	5,942.3	87.5	
Álava	155.9	0.7	15.0	34.3	31.7	..	73.6	0.6	
Albacete	168.0	0.9	22.6	69.0	34.3	1.2	39.8	0.2	
Alicante	783.6	5.1	144.6	283.4	159.7	..	188.9	1.9	
Almería	291.3	3.7	134.3	34.4	68.4	1.2	48.2	1.1	
Asturias	435.6	0.0	79.4	124.2	86.8	2.5	141.6	1.0	
Ávila	68.3	0.4	9.0	29.9	15.2	..	13.6	0.2	
Badajoz	280.6	2.3	40.4	127.1	48.4	1.4	60.2	0.9	
Balears (Illes)	493.7	1.7	75.0	193.5	130.4	0.6	91.9	0.6	
Barcelona	2,557.9	21.3	437.8	678.0	580.0	0.3	821.2	19.4	
Burgos	163.6	0.1	25.9	37.4	37.2	..	62.6	0.4	
Cáceres	167.5	0.8	34.2	69.0	26.4	0.0	36.7	0.4	
Cádiz	494.2	3.0	151.4	123.0	92.0	0.5	122.5	1.8	
Cantabria	251.4	..	40.4	71.6	58.8	0.9	79.4	0.3	
Castellon de la Plana	250.5	1.0	11.5	120.2	58.4	0.1	58.6	0.7	
Ciudad Real	197.6	1.4	52.9	66.4	33.3	0.4	42.6	0.7	
Córdoba	342.8	4.7	100.3	101.4	60.6	1.0	74.0	0.8	
Coruña (A)	525.5	1.9	80.7	169.5	110.2	0.9	157.7	4.5	
Cuenca	82.9	0.4	24.2	29.0	16.5	0.4	12.4	0.0	
Girona	355.0	6.1	21.8	170.8	67.6	..	88.2	0.5	
Granada	344.9	2.1	98.4	82.2	67.9	1.6	90.3	2.4	
Guadalajara	89.7	..	15.3	26.4	21.6	..	26.0	0.3	
Guipúzcoa	335.2	0.4	57.8	59.9	75.3	1.0	139.0	1.7	
Huelva	190.7	1.3	64.8	45.2	35.3	0.6	43.4	..	
Huesca	95.5	0.2	17.9	26.6	24.4	0.2	25.9	0.1	
Jaén	263.1	2.4	56.2	96.1	46.0	0.7	61.4	0.2	
León	182.3	0.2	31.0	59.3	36.8	0.1	54.3	0.6	
Lleida	181.8	..	49.8	38.6	45.8	0.2	46.2	1.2	
Lugo	157.5	0.1	38.7	55.3	30.0	0.1	32.9	0.5	
Madrid	2,900.2	5.9	472.1	636.3	673.0	0.5	1,100.5	11.9	
Málaga	600.6	3.0	159.4	201.0	113.1	1.1	122.2	0.7	
Murcia	607.2	5.4	152.6	168.7	130.4	1.6	145.7	2.9	
Navarra	276.1	0.7	52.1	63.0	55.9	0.3	103.2	0.9	
Ourense	135.5	1.4	37.4	30.9	30.8	..	34.7	0.4	
Palencia	70.8	0.1	19.0	17.2	14.9	1.7	17.8	0.1	
Palmas (Las)	471.5	3.9	78.2	159.3	120.4	1.2	107.5	0.9	
Pontevedra	435.7	0.4	53.1	180.3	79.4	..	121.9	0.7	
Rioja (La)	135.9	0.1	30.2	38.0	23.5	..	43.8	0.4	
Salamanca	158.6	0.1	42.9	34.3	30.3	..	48.3	2.6	
Santa Cruz de Tenerife	444.3	2.9	114.0	112.6	91.5	0.9	118.9	3.4	
Segovia	74.2	0.0	17.0	18.4	15.4	0.1	23.1	0.2	
Sevilla	803.9	6.3	166.7	239.7	143.3	0.7	241.8	5.3	
Soria	40.6	0.0	0.8	20.6	8.1	0.0	11.0	0.1	
Tarragona	345.2	3.8	74.6	99.6	71.0	..	95.1	1.1	
Teruel	54.3	0.6	13.7	17.6	9.2	..	13.3	0.0	
Toledo	254.8	2.2	62.8	98.9	43.6	..	47.1	0.3	
Valencia	1,144.1	2.7	146.1	393.6	269.8	2.7	321.5	7.7	
Valladolid	244.5	..	35.9	64.8	55.6	..	87.2	1.0	
Vizcaya	530.0	0.4	92.7	104.7	104.0	..	226.7	1.3	
Zamora	71.2	..	34.6	7.9	12.3	0.2	16.0	..	
Zaragoza	423.2	2.7	76.1	87.2	107.7	..	147.2	2.2	
Ceuta and Melilla	55.3	0.7	9.7	16.2	13.7	0.1	14.6	0.5	
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