Table 2

Face-to-face and distance undergraduate students aged between 25 and 54 enrolled in Spanish public universities, and general population of the same age group, according to sex, age, family situation, employment situation and educational level Percentage indicators*

Students1General population2
Face-to-faceDistance
Women64.4a52.8b50.2b
Over the age of 3528.7a70.8b73.1b
Over the age of 4510.4a32.9b37.7b
Live with spouse/partner39.7a67.7b70.8b
Live with child/children13.5a40.4b57.8c
In full-time work27.2a71.0b53.4c
In part-time work33.8a13.0b13.6b
Have higher education qualifications39.8a52.5b28.1c
 (1,689)(301)(1,270)

Note(s): *Values in the same row that do not share the same sub-index are significantly different (z test, p < 0.05)

Source(s):1Authors' own survey of university students, 2018

2Centre for Sociological Research, study 3,207 (barometer March 2018). As this study does not include employment type, we considered that 80% of working people over the age of 25 is in full-time jobs (a highly stable percentage in previous studies)

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