Qataris		Non-Qataris		Total
	Males	Females	Males	Females	Males	Females
Agriculture, forestry and fishing	65	0	40,049	0	40,114	0
Mining and quarrying	5,292	1,942	26,098	2,348	31,390	4,290
Manufacturing	1,520	408	108,485	2,269	110,005	2,677
Electricity, gas, steam and air conditioning supply	1,227	1,333	13,208	1,782	14,435	3,115
Water supply; sewerage, waste management and remediation activities	529	304	6,027	72	6,556	376
Construction	1,403	179	693,271	8,085	694,674	8,264
Wholesale and retail trade; repair of motor vehicles and motorcycles	1,296	810	227,282	27,212	228,578	28,022
Transportation and storage	1,874	1,820	130,478	19,894	132,352	21,714
Accommodation and food service activities	300	799	73,840	21,939	74,140	22,738
Information and communication	2,095	1,569	17,094	5,239	19,189	6,808
Financial and insurance activities	2,781	3,118	17,352	7,475	20,133	10,593
Real estate activities	475	242	18,993	2,345	19,468	2,587
Professional, scientific and technical activities	261	214	26,398	5,248	26,659	5,462
Administrative and support service activities	340	357	166,508	30,815	166,848	31,172
Public administration and defence; compulsory social security	46,965	19,736	42,062	5,023	89,027	24,759
Education	2,972	12,321	28,784	34,469	31,756	46,790
Human health and social work activities	3,710	6,038	52,606	45,579	56,316	51,617
Arts, entertainment and recreation	1,394	1,223	8,486	2,962	9,880	4,185
Other service activities	98	48	13,978	3,326	14,076	3,374
Activities of households as employers; undifferentiated goods- and services-producing activities of households for own use	0	0	68,728	100,477	68,728	100,477
Activities of extraterritorial organizations and bodies	321	98	4,591	2,152	4,912	2,250
Total	74,918	52,559	1,784,318	328,711	1,859,236	381,270

Source: Annual Bulletin of Labour Force Sample Survey 2024

ANNEXED NOTE

1. Technical Notes and Definitions

The data is taken from Labour Force Survey 2024 (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 does not cover short periods accommodation, i.e. hotels.

Labour force: People in working age including employed and unemployed.
Employed population:
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
Unemployed population:
All persons aged 15 years and over who were, during the week preceding the survey, without work and were willing to work and looking seriously for work.
These are:
First time unemployed: They are the persons who never worked previously, and were during the week preceding the survey looking actively for work.
Unemployed who previously worked: They are the persons with previous experience work and during the week preceding the survey were actively looking for work.

Data does not include those seeking employment for the first time.

Classification of activities used: ISIC-Rev.4.

2. Institution which provides data

National Planning Council (NPC), formerly the Planning and Statistics Authority (PSA)
https://www.npc.qa/en/pages/default.aspx
https://www.npc.qa/ar/pages/default.aspx

3. Data availability

Annual and quarterly bulletins of Labour Force Surveys reports can be downloaded from NPC’s website, in PDF and/or Excel formats:
https://www.npc.qa/en/statistics/pages/subjectdetails.aspx

Last date of access: 05 May 2026.

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, Employment, Female Employment, National Labour, Foreign Labour

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