Mega Events and Urban Conflicts in Valencia, Spain: Contesting the New Urban Modernity

Table 1

Socioeconomic data: Poblats Marítims district and Valencia.

	Poblats Marítims	Valencia
% Illiteracy rate	3.07%	1.82%
% Population with less than a grade 9 education	13.22%	9.31%
% Unemployment rate	9.14%	7.81%
% Economic activity rate	44.23%	47.29%
Life expectancy (men)	74.59	77.35
Life expectancy (women)	82.71	83.79

Source: INE (2001).