Qatari			Non-Qatari			Total
	Males	Females	Total	Males	Females	Total	Males	Females	Total
Agriculture, forestry and fishing	112	0	112	27,795	0	27,795	27,907	0	27,907
Mining and quarrying	8,294	2,199	10,493	83,926	4,573	88,499	92,220	6,772	98,992
Manufacturing	1,024	280	1,304	148,564	2,008	150,572	149,588	2,288	151,876
Electricity, gas, steam and air conditioning supply	1,569	1,136	2,705	13,955	752	14,707	15,524	1,888	17,412
Water supply; sewerage, waste management and remediation activities	308	351	659	6,366	369	6,735	6,674	720	7,394
Construction	1,470	140	1,610	872,540	6,799	879,339	874,010	6,939	880,949
Wholesale and retail trade; repair of motor vehicles and motorcycles	1,092	1,022	2,114	224,948	24,851	249,799	226,040	25,873	251,913
Transportation and storage	1,586	1,471	3,057	52,760	8,981	61,741	54,346	10,452	64,798
Accommodation and food service activities	252	308	560	55,807	18,382	74,189	56,059	18,690	74,749
Information and communication	2,324	1,148	3,472	10,795	1,640	12,435	13,119	2,788	15,907
Financial and insurance activities	2,240	2,186	4,426	7,416	3,177	10,593	9,656	5,363	15,019
Real estate activities	574	280	854	9,757	647	10,404	10,331	927	11,258
Professional, scientific and technical activities	420	112	532	15,631	2,152	17,783	16,051	2,264	18,315
Administrative and support service activities	812	196	1,008	80,147	9,720	89,867	80,959	9,916	90,875
Public administration and defence; compulsory social security	39,822	12,617	52,439	23,534	2,080	25,614	63,356	14,697	78,053
Education	2,296	10,415	12,711	11,059	23,946	35,005	13,355	34,361	47,716
Human health and social work activities	1,960	3,797	5,757	15,483	17,461	32,944	17,443	21,258	38,701
Arts, entertainment and recreation	923	434	1,357	4,235	506	4,741	5,158	940	6,098
Other service activities	350	252	602	9,732	7,592	17,324	10,082	7,844	17,926
Activities of households as employers; undifferentiated goods- and services-producing activities of households for own use	0	0	0	64,173	109,127	173,300	64,173	109,127	173,300
Activities of extraterritorial organizations and bodies	224	84	308	3,657	1,524	5,181	3,881	1,608	5,489
Total	67,652	38,428	106,080	1,742,280	246,287	1,988,567	1,809,932	284,715	2,094,647

Source: Annual Bulletin of Labor Force Sample survey 2018
 
ANNEXED NOTE
 
1. Technical Notes and Definitions

The data is taken from 2018 Labour Force Survey (yearly synthesis)
Sampling frame of LFS 2018: Census of Population, Housing, and Establishments 2015.
Sample size: 60,238 persons, in 9,200 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: data was collected monthly.
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 in 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.

Economically active = In the labour force.
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.
Current data include unemployed persons who previously worked (having a work experience, and who were actively looking for a job during the week preceding the survey).
Unemployed persons seeking work for the first time are not included.

2. Institution which provides data 

Planning and Statistics Authority
https://www.psa.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:
https://www.psa.gov.qa/en/statistics1/pages/topicslisting.aspx?parent=Social&child=LaborForce
Labour Force 2018:
https://www.psa.gov.qa/en/statistics/Statistical%20Releases/Social/LaborForce/2018/Annual_Bulletin_Labour_force_2018_AE.xls
Statistical analysis of LFS 2018:
https://www.psa.gov.qa/en/statistics/Statistical%20Releases/Social/LaborForce/2018/statistical_analysis_labor_force_2018_En.pdf

Last date of access: October 2019.

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