Qataris			Non-Qataris			Total
	Males	Females	Total	Males	Females	Total	Males	Females	Total
Agriculture, forestry and fishing	62	0	62	37,254	0	37,254	37,316	0	37,316
Mining and quarrying	4,896	1,932	6,828	25,451	2,441	27,892	30,347	4,373	34,720
Manufacturing	1,485	345	1,830	103,366	2,442	105,808	104,851	2,787	107,638
Electricity, gas, steam and air conditioning supply	1,246	1,326	2,572	12,741	1,870	14,611	13,987	3,196	17,183
Water supply; sewerage, waste management and remediation activities	561	297	858	5,996	0	5,996	6,557	297	6,854
Construction	1,485	250	1,735	660,597	8,311	668,908	662,082	8,561	670,643
Wholesale and retail trade; repair of motor vehicles and motorcycles	1,119	846	1,965	225,695	26,913	252,608	226,814	27,759	254,573
Transportation and storage	1,981	1,670	3,651	126,417	19,893	146,310	128,398	21,563	149,961
Accommodation and food service activities	548	969	1,517	72,718	21,403	94,121	73,266	22,372	95,638
Information and communication	2,297	1,520	3,817	17,379	4,950	22,329	19,676	6,470	26,146
Financial and insurance activities	2,313	2,798	5,111	16,521	7,389	23,910	18,834	10,187	29,021
Real estate activities	510	266	776	18,223	2,636	20,859	18,733	2,902	21,635
Professional, scientific and technical activities	374	187	561	26,958	5,343	32,301	27,332	5,530	32,862
Administrative and support service activities	392	831	1,223	163,505	32,347	195,852	163,897	33,178	197,075
Public administration and defence; compulsory social security	46,432	19,167	65,599	42,496	5,120	47,616	88,928	24,287	113,215
Education	2,894	11,564	14,458	28,598	33,959	62,557	31,492	45,523	77,015
Human health and social work activities	3,362	5,405	8,767	51,562	44,561	96,123	54,924	49,966	104,890
Arts, entertainment and recreation	1,213	1,167	2,380	8,537	3,037	11,574	9,750	4,204	13,954
Other service activities	109	47	156	10,896	3,900	14,796	11,005	3,947	14,952
Activities of households as employers; undifferentiated goods- and services-producing activities of households for own use	0	0	0	66,195	101,069	167,264	66,195	101,069	167,264
Activities of extraterritorial organizations and bodies	313	111	424	4,699	2,255	6,954	5,012	2,366	7,378
Total	73,592	50,698	124,290	1,725,804	329,839	2,055,643	1,799,396	380,537	2,179,933

Source: Annual Bulletin of Labour Force Sample Survey 2023

ANNEXED NOTE

1. Technical Notes and Definitions

The data is taken from Labour Force Survey 2023 (yearly synthesis)

Sampling frame : Population Census 2020.
Sample size: 65,253 persons, in 10,560 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).
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).
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.
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
Classifications used: ISIC Rev. 4.

2. Institution which provides data

Planning and Statistics Authority / National Planning Council
https://www.psa.gov.qa/en/Pages/default.aspx

3. Data availability

Labour Force Surveys (yearly and quarterly data) can be downloaded from PSA’s website, “Labor Force” section, in PDF and Excel format:

https://www.psa.gov.qa/en/statistics1/pages/topicslisting.aspx?parent=Social&child=LaborForce

Date of access: November 2024.

GLMM and GRC cannot guarantee that the link to access the source will not change;
that the information will not be removed from the website it was obtained from;
that no geo-blockages will be imposed; or that the information will not be available for any another reason.

Keywords: Qatar, Labour Market, Employment, National & Foreign Labour, National Labour, Foreign Labour, Highly-Skilled Labour, Low-Skilled Labour

 

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