Activity status	In the labour Force			Out of the Labour Force				Total
year		Male	Female	Total	Male	Female	Total	Male	Female	Total
	Saudis	2.559.360	460.786	3.020.146	1.427.869	3.765.464	5.193.333	3.987.229	4.226.250	8.213.479
2002	Non-Saudis	2.566.431	431.851	2.998.282	246.192	722.603	968.795	2.812.623	1.154.454	3.967.077
	Total	5.125.791	892.637	6.018.428	1.674.061	4.488.067	6.162.128	6.799.852	5.380.704	12.180.556
	Saudis	3.228.840	660.637	3.889.477	1.791.603	4.359.533	6.151.136	5.020.443	5.020.170	10.040.613
2007 R1	Non-Saudis	3.536.929	600.077	4.137.006	202.950	748.739	951.689	3.739.879	1.348.816	5.088.695
	Total	6.765.769	1.260.714	8.026.483	1.994.553	5.108.272	7.102.825	8.760.322	6.368.986	15.129.308
	Saudis	3.760.573	935.327	4.695.900	2.048.850	4.898.860	6.947.710	5.809.423	5.834.187	11.643.610
2012  R1	Non-Saudis	5.085.230	698.758	5.783.988	274.577	1.140.336	1.414.913	5.359.807	1.839.094	7.198.901
	Total	8.845.803	1.634.085	10.479.888	2.323.427	6.039.196	8.362.623	11.169.230	7.673.281	18.842.511

Source: Manpower Surveys 2002; 2007 Round 1; 2012 Round 1.

 

ANNEXED NOTE

 

1. Technical Notes and Definitions

	sampling	sample size
Survey	frame	(households)	reference period
2002	Census 1992	15.000	April 2002
2007  R1	Census 2004	23.000	February 19th-March 20th, 2007
2012  R1	Census 2010	29.000	January 25th-February 17th, 2012

 

Population of reference: all individuals (nationals and non-nationals) residing in the Kingdom during the period of reference.

The ultimate sampling unit is the household.

 

(a) Working age population: the population aged 15 to 60 (retirement age for Saudis), even though (as of mid-2013) there is no maximum working age on foreign nationals.

 

(b) Person in the labour force: a person aged 15 years and over, employed or unemployed. Here, concerned population is aged 15 to 60 years.

 

(c) Person out of the labour force: A person aged 15 years and over who is not included in the labour force, among which: the persons staying home for domestics activities, the students, the retired, the self sufficients,

the ones unable to enrol in labour, who are not working and do not look for employment for any other reason. Here, concerned population is aged 15 to 60 years.

 

2. Institution which provides data

 

Central Department of Statistics and Information (CDSI), Ministry and Economy and Planning

 

3. Data availability

 

Surveys conducted since 1999 are available on the website of the CDSI (http://www.cdsi.gov.sa/), in published form in PDF format. A selection of tables is also available in PDF or Excel format.

https://www.stats.gov.sa/en/814 (website English version) or https://www.stats.gov.sa/ar/814 (website Arabic version). The technical notes and tables of contents are in Arabic and the tables are in both languages.

Date of access: May 2013.

 

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