The Human Capital database is the result of a project undertaken with the Fundación Bancaja, and contains a wide range of information on how levels of education in the Spanish population have evolved, broken down into these categories:

• Illiterate
• No formal education or primary education
• Compulsory secondary education
• Pre-university education
• Higher education
• Total

and structured as follows:

• Population according to activity and level of education attained (1964-2004)
  • Working-age population by provinces and Autonomous Regions
  • Active population by provinces and Autonomous Regions
  • People in employment by provinces and Autonomous Regions
  • Unemployed people by provinces and Autonomous Regions
• People in employment by areas of activity and level of education attained (1964-2004).
  Breakdown at province and autonomous region level.
  • Agriculture and fishery
  • Energy
  • Industry
  • Construction
  • Sales-based services
  • Non-sales based services
• People in employment by areas of activity and level of education attained (1964-2004).
  • National total

Click here to download the complete database in self-extracting format for Windows, or here in WinZip compressed format.

The Methodology for Estimating the Human Capital Series 1964-2004 is also included with the database. This document describes the procedures used in the preparation of the working-age, active, in employment and unemployed population series for the period 1964-2004, classified according to the level of education attained. This document outlines and details the methodology previously used by the Ivie to take into account the longer time period covered.

If you wish any information on the various reports produced within the frame of the Human Capital project, click here. The Human Capital Notes, documents that present the main results to emerge from this project, are also available.