Specialists in Scientific,	Technicians in Scientific,				Agriculture,	Industrial,
		Managers and	Technical and	Technical and	Clerical Workers	Sales	Service	Animal Husbandry	Chemical	Engineering	TOTAL
	Year	Business Managers	Humanities Fields	Humanities Fields		Persons	Persons	and Fishing	and Food Industries	Support
	2006	222,692	312,151	651,274	444,248	189,522	1,252,678	92,634	39,549	226,826	3,431,574
	2007 R1	263,244	315,085	705,746	483,319	200,089	1,222,257	124,062	31,304	239,647	3,584,753
SAUDIS	2008 R1	263,810	332,250	692,838	505,918	189,461	1,327,051	95,253	33,753	238,266	3,678,600
	2009	246,640	347,732	704,855	571,944	234,721	1,345,867	103,903	37,697	244,609	3,837,968
	2011	245,819	438,597	854,588	579,075	216,414	1,362,707	176,188	27,638	242,045	4,143,071
	2012 R1	243,308	466,838	889,580	608,651	208,973	1,427,740	168,289	30,927	207,417	4,251,723
	2006	48,030	277,567	194,899	103,001	508,706	1,154,026	225,569	143,894	1,435,726	4,091,418
	2007 R1	72,308	298,857	178,625	94,956	513,706	1,185,231	269,013	172,321	1,396,572	4,181,589
NON-SAUDIS	2008 R1	72,445	332,676	176,613	102,394	579,387	1,232,552	267,782	154,773	1,359,610	4,278,232
	2009	78,641	307,027	183,910	121,670	597,762	1,141,424	235,693	160,228	1,483,669	4,310,024
	2011	106,823	524,541	302,325	134,664	743,770	1,427,226	262,976	174,515	2,115,623	5,792,463
	2012 R1	102,888	627,182	292,498	128,110	707,574	1,399,758	273,644	157,607	2,195,409	5,884,670

R= round

Source: Labour Force Surveys, given dates and rounds.

ANNEXED NOTE

 

1. Technical Notes and Definitions

Manpower	Sampling	Sample size
Surveys	frame	(households)	Reference period
2006	Population	23,000	May  2006
2007  R1	Census	23,000	February 19th-March 20th, 2007
2008  R1	2004	23,000	February 2008
2009		23,000	July 24th-August 22nd, 2009
2011	Population	29,000	October 2011
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) Household and household members: A person or group of persons, related or not related, who share housing and food.

Servants, drivers and similar categories are considered to be part of the household if they live in the same housing unit.

 

(b) Employed person: A person aged 15 years and above who worked during the reference week for at least one hour for pay or profit, or who had a job but were temporarily absent from work.

Employment refers to people who during the reference period:

– worked for one hour or more for wage or salary, in cash or in kind

– worked for one hour or more for profit or family gain, in cash or in kind

– worked for at least 15 hours without pay on a family business or farm

– did volunteer work

Reference period for employment: The seven days preceding the interview date.

 

Classification used for occupations is adapted from ISCO 1988.

 

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.

Since 2007, Statistical Yearbooks have introduced a section on “Labour Statistics”, which presents a selection of tables from Manpower Surveys.

https://www.stats.gov.sa/en/46

Date of access: May 2013.

 

 

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