According to these data, 80.9% of the population aged 10 and over enrolled in vocational education were doing professional qualification courses. According to the same survey, most of those who were (or had been) enrolled in such courses were doing IT-related subjects (45.5%). The second most popular subject was business and management studies (11.5%) (MEC, 2009). In 2010, there were 743 000 beneficiaries, with a total budget of BRL 304 million (MEC, 2011a).