Education and Unemployment Patterns for Young Workers with Job Experience in Spain
Table 1
Sample description: frequencies and average values.
Gender: female
46.3
Nationality: non-Spanish
7.1
Parents’ higher educational level
Compulsory education or lower
67.6
Noncompulsory secondary or lower vocational training
16.6
University or higher vocational training
15.7
Children
Male worker
3.0
Female worker
3.9
Educational level and field of study
Compulsory secondary or lower
36.8
Noncompulsory secondary
11.1
Vocational training (VT) in social sciences
8.4
VT in sciences and technology
12.8
VT in health and welfare
3.0
VT in other fields
4.4
Higher vocational training
15.4
University in social sciences
7.4
University in sciences and technology
6.0
University in health and welfare
3.8
University in other fields
6.4
Long-cycle university
12.4
First job
Part-time
17.2
Overeducated
51.8
Fixed-term
67.3
Time since obtained first job
Less than 2 years
13.2
2-3 years
19.8
4-5 years
15.1
6–10 years
30.4
More than 10 years
21.4
Potential experience
Three years or less
12.3
3 to 5 years
14.0
5 to 10 years
34.3
More than 10 years
39.4
Unemployment rate by gender in the quarter of the survey*
21.5
GDP per capita by Autonomous Communities in 2009*
0.949
The frequency of the omitted category for variables with just two categories is not included since it is complementary to the one displayed in the table.
*Continuous variable (average). Source: Spanish Labour Force Survey (2009). Own calculations.