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Generational reasons, others linked to the brick boom and the sheer, simple and harsh abandonment of school can explain that more than half of Castellón residents over 16 years of age do not currently have a Compulsory Secondary Education (ESO) degree. .
The latest Active Population Survey (EPA) shows that, of a total of 497,900 citizens who exceed the aforementioned age , precisely the one in which schoolchildren finish ESO, only 110,700 have managed to complete the second stage , that is, two of every ten, since they represent 22% of the total.
As for those who have received training in higher and university vocational training degrees, the proportion is slightly higher than the latter, with 25% of the total, totaling 126,100.
However, on the other side of the spectrum, those who have completed at most the first stage of ESO, there are 261,200 people, that is, 52.4%. This very large group is distributed among those who have completed training between the ages of 11 and 13, with a figure of 207,100, the majority group; those who only successfully completed their Primary studies , a total of 49,600 and, finally, 4,500 people who declare themselves illiterate.
One of the reasons that explains the high number of Castellón residents who have not obtained a secondary school diploma is generational, since it is an educational model that was implemented for the first time 26 years ago, in the 1996-1997 academic year. This would leave the elderly in provincial society out of any option to obtain a qualification that did not exist at the time they were of studying age.
In general terms, this generational factor is also the cause of the several thousand citizens of Castellón who declare that they do not know how to read or write.
Working market
Another of the factors that influence this situation is the one that has to do with the intense expansion of economic activity and, as a consequence, also of the supply of the Castellón labor market that ended with the brick crisis of 2008. As in its day This newspaper reported, there were many young people who left their studies attracted by very high salaries at that time in sectors such as construction .
Also in the workplace, the analysis of the training levels of the unemployed population in this territory reveals, according to the EPA, that of a total of 40,600 unemployed counted in the survey, the group with the largest volume, formed a total Of 18,200 people, very close to half of the group, is made up of those who have only completed the first stage of Compulsory Secondary Education. Those who did complete ESO are the second group and amount to 11,400 unemployed.
In third place are those with higher education, either vocational training or university, with 6,200 Castellón residents looking for a job, which represents 15% of the total, that is, just over one in ten.
The last group, linked to job seekers in less qualified activities, is the 4,800 who are only able to certify that they have completed Primary education studies .