occupation/ profession
	Legislators, Senior Officials and Managers	Professionals	Technicians and Associate Professionals	Clerks	Service Workers and Shop and Market Sales Workers	Skilled Agricultural and Fishery Workers	Craft and Related Trades Workers	Plant and Machine Operators And Assemblers	Elementary Occupations	Total
Agriculture, forestry and fishing	100	542	245	307	1,664	17,411	795	524	2,370	23,958
Mining and quarrying	5,431	11,323	8,665	3,761	2,600	176	35,593	12,598	12,210	92,357
Manufacturing	3,923	8,651	8,643	2,913	5,573	0	60,120	28,896	14,898	133,617
Electricity, gas, steam and air conditioning supply	554	2,343	4,111	2,004	2,151	0	3,206	2,528	904	17,801
Water supply; sewerage, waste management and remediation activities	0	6,120	1,223	3,189	1,494	0	627	32	0	12,685
Construction	6,677	30,797	26,813	14,060	17,322	722	454,288	125,100	107,662	783,441
Wholesale and retail trade; repair of motor vehicles and motorcycles	7,253	13,475	8,887	15,292	66,644	368	66,115	26,816	46,057	250,907
Transportation and storage	887	4,153	7,581	4,493	6,767	0	5,765	25,265	9,629	64,540
Accommodation and food service activities	469	1,158	2,060	1,782	23,535	48	3,413	2,972	14,640	50,077
Information and communication	1,136	4,558	1,565	594	153	0	982	680	843	10,511
Financial and insurance activities	1,999	3,877	129	2,057	1,092	0	45	39	3,047	12,285
Real estate activities	506	748	653	1,251	1,913	0	1,524	704	4,084	11,383
Professional, scientific and technical activities	1,084	3,498	1,541	1,192	1,130	0	10,540	3,462	5,947	28,394
Administrative and support service activities	252	1,913	1,361	2,708	3,064	1,327	8,202	5,747	30,023	54,597
Public administration and defence; compulsory social security	673	9,989	5,035	10,465	3,513	2,284	4,364	4,857	9,175	50,355
Education	1,934	23,065	1,822	1,279	7,169	6	19	1,317	2,572	39,183
Human health and social work activities	428	9,732	4,470	2,060	2,539	366	506	1,511	3,436	25,048
Arts, entertainment and recreation	445	1,396	1,232	580	287	297	4,356	2,943	2,057	13,593
Other service activities	48	1,543	383	716	2,747	237	1,680	1,321	5,032	13,707
Activities of households as employers; undifferentiated goods- and services-producing activities of households for own use	0	154	388	688	24,701	1,008	609	46,351	88,477	162,376
Activities of extraterritorial organizations and bodies	398	1,132	607	605	410	84	430	0	684	4,350
Total	34,197	140,167	87,414	71,996	176,468	24,334	663179	293,663	363,747	1,855,165

 

Source: Annual Bulletin of Labor Force Sample survey 2015

 
ANNEXED NOTE
 
1. Technical Notes and Definitions

The data is taken from 2015 Labour Force Survey (yearly synthesis)
Sampling frame of LFS 2015: Population Census 2010.
Sample size: 44,756 persons, in 6,953  households: 1- Qatari households; 2- Non-Qatari regular (non-collective) households;
3- Non-Qatari small collective households or labour gatherings (2 – 6 persons); 4- Non-Qatari large collective households or large labour gatherings (7 persons or more).
Data Collection: The sample was divided into equal parts to collect data monthly.  Each month 1/3 of the quarterly data were collected during the first two weeks of the month.
Reference period for the labour force data: the week prior to data collection day.
Population of reference: all Qatari and non-Qatari households present in Qatar on the night of survey, living in normal and collective households.
The collective households are a group of persons not related to each other and sharing living conditions in a residential unit, I.e. labour camps, students living boarding
schools, nurses in hospitals… etc. The survey covered the small collective households (includes less than 7 persons) and large collective households (includes 7 persons or more).
The survey did not cover short periods accommodation, i.e. hotels.
The present data includes active population, i.e. employed and unemployed. It does not include persons seeking work for the first time

Relation to labour force (for persons aged 15 and above)
In the labour force (= economically active).
1) Employed.
All persons aged 15 years an above, who during the week preceding the survey:
a) Perform a work for a wage, salary, profits or household gains, whether it was in cash or in kind.
b) Are temporarily not employed, however, they still have an official relation with their work
2) Unemployed.
All persons aged 15 years and over who were, during the week preceding the survey, without employment, willing to work and looking seriously for a job.
There is a distinction between two kinds of unemployed persons:
a) First time unemployed: They are the persons who never worked previously, and were during the week preceding the survey looking actively for work.
b) Unemployed who previously worked: They are the persons with a work experience, who during the week preceding the survey were actively looking for a job

Classification of economic activities: ISIC Rev. 4.

2. Institution which provides data

Ministry of Development Planning and Statistics
(http://www.mdps.gov.qa/en/pages/default.aspx)

3. Data availability

The Statistics Authority conducted the first labour Force Sample Survey in 2001. Starting from 2006, the execution of these surveys came to be on annual basis.
Quarterly publications of Labour Force Surveys’ data are also available since 2012.
2015′ and earlier Labour Force Surveys can be downloaded from MDPS’s website, in PDF and Excel format:
http://www.mdps.gov.qa/en/statistics1/pages/topicslisting.aspx?parent=Social&child=LaborForce
See also Qatar Information Exchange for earlier Labour Force Surveys. QIX has also an interactive data base compiling data on the labour force taken from available surveys:
http://www.qix.gov.qa/portal/page/portal/qix/subject_area/Statistics?subject_area=183

Last date of access: January 2017.

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