Qatari			Non-Qatari			Total
	Males	Females	Total	Males	Females	Total	Males	Females	Total
Agriculture, forestry and fishing	28	0	28	24,888	0	24,888	24,916	0	24,916
Mining and quarrying	8,140	1,989	10,129	85,761	4,650	90,411	93,901	6,639	100,540
Manufacturing	882	350	1,232	140,968	1,843	142,811	141,850	2,193	144,043
Electricity, gas, steam and air conditioning supply	1,555	980	2,535	14,289	545	14,834	15,844	1,525	17,369
Water supply; sewerage, waste management and remediation activities	308	350	658	8,270	254	8,524	8,578	604	9,182
Construction	1,359	126	1,485	839,461	6,306	845,767	840,820	6,432	847,252
Wholesale and retail trade; repair of motor vehicles and motorcycles	1,148	1,204	2,352	226,232	26,348	252,580	227,380	27,552	254,932
Transportation and storage	1,080	759	1,839	47,547	9,733	57,280	48,627	10,492	59,119
Accommodation and food service activities	336	504	840	55,072	16,770	71,842	55,408	17,274	72,682
Information and communication	2,143	812	2,955	11,010	1,648	12,658	13,153	2,460	15,613
Financial and insurance activities	1,976	2,212	4,188	7,910	3,640	11,550	9,886	5,852	15,738
Real estate activities	476	168	644	10,929	604	11,533	11,405	772	12,177
Professional, scientific and technical activities	210	140	350	25,248	3,221	28,469	25,458	3,361	28,819
Administrative and support service activities	616	448	1,064	78,433	5,352	83,785	79,049	5,800	84,849
Public administration and defence; compulsory social security	39,455	12,064	51,519	32,401	3,361	35,762	71,856	15,425	87,281
Education	2,186	10,059	12,245	11,285	23,523	34,808	13,471	33,582	47,053
Human health and social work activities	1,834	3,403	5,237	11,899	12,823	24,722	13,733	16,226	29,959
Arts, entertainment and recreation	812	504	1,316	4,584	380	4,964	5,396	884	6,280
Other service activities	379	266	645	11,045	4,502	15,547	11,424	4,768	16,192
Activities of households as employers; undifferentiated goods- and services-producing activities of households for own use	0	0	0	66,121	107,621	173,742	66,121	107,621	173,742
Activities of extraterritorial organizations and bodies	128	56	184	3,306	1,459	4,765	3,434	1,515	4,949
Total	65,051	36,394	101,445	1,716,659	234,583	1,951,242	1,781,710	270,977	2,052,687

Source: Annual Bulletin of Labor Force Sample survey 2016
 
ANNEXED NOTE
 
1. Technical Notes and Definitions

The data is taken from 2016 Labour Force Survey (yearly synthesis)
Sampling frame of LFS 2016: Population Census 2010.
Sample size: 60,016 persons, in 9,199 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 and 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, and on a quarterly basis since 2013.
Labour Force Surveys (yearly and quarterly data) 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

Last date of access: May 2018.

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