In the current information society there was a strong increase of the needs and training demands. The offer favours, in most cases, the persons with higher studies level and excludes social sectors with low levels of schooling. The research on participation and non participation would contribute to this exclusion and to legitimate cultural policies if its analysis were based exclusively in quantitative studies. The combination of quantitative and qualitative methodologies allows us to, besides characterising the social importance of the object of study, obtain reflection, motivations and interpretations from the actors. This research presents a description of the reality and his end is to provide standards for a transformation that favours the participation of all the social groups