Legislators, Senior Officials and Managers	Professionals	Technicians and Associate Professionals	Clerks	Service Workers and Shop and Market Sales Workers	Skilled Agricultural and Fishery Workers	Craft and Related Trades Workers	Plant and Machine Operators and Assemblers	Elementary Occupations	Total
Agriculture, forestry and fishing	425	259	299	514	314	29,913	1,850	2,729	590	36,893
Mining and quarrying	679	7,647	5,413	1,412	447	0	7,654	3,928	342	27,522
Manufacturing	2,860	7,097	10,820	6,776	5,440	203	48,321	17,985	6,522	106,024
Electricity, gas, steam and air conditioning supply	75	3,634	5,577	1,000	716	0	906	70	183	12,161
Water supply; sewerage, waste management and remediation activities	140	112	322	280	0	0	1,012	1,822	266	3,954
Construction	10,458	44,313	40,271	33,692	10,568	463	413,557	66,010	48,720	668,052
Wholesale and retail trade; repair of motor vehicles and motorcycles	13,853	18,053	28,809	20,912	77,003	0	37,115	31,554	19,414	246,713
Transportation and storage	2,294	13,813	13,603	12,165	19,294	0	5,542	64,889	7,483	139,083
Accommodation and food service activities	3,222	2,444	5,306	8,656	51,343	0	2,478	9,752	5,192	88,393
Information and communication	911	9,963	5,624	1,779	382	0	872	625	832	20,988
Financial and insurance activities	1,958	6,846	5,213	4,968	292	0	248	711	993	21,229
Real estate activities	469	3,220	4,922	3,431	341	0	3,530	1,639	2,439	19,991
Professional, scientific and technical activities	2,573	14,158	4,334	4,637	1,660	0	1,741	2,190	1,114	32,407
Administrative and support service activities	2,585	10,796	19,163	14,097	8,492	215	15,622	13,913	104,667	189,550
Public administration and defence; compulsory social security	0	16,069	4,553	17,931	3,420	0	2,732	397	2,590	47,692
Education	1,323	39,483	6,649	3,435	3,593	0	509	3,385	1,504	59,881
Human health and social work activities	948	58,828	13,178	8,217	2,238	0	949	2,298	2,510	89,166
Arts, entertainment and recreation	464	2,047	3,169	1,889	908	531	112	609	1,085	10,814
Other service activities	140	1,629	2,777	521	5,176	0	224	495	2,541	13,503
Activities of households as employers; undifferentiated goods- and services-producing activities of households for own use	0	954	915	139	16,866	0	43	56,888	92,821	168,626
Activities of extraterritorial organizations and bodies	350	2,889	849	2,035	28	0	0	731	0	6,882
Total	45,727	264,254	181,766	148,486	208,521	31,325	545,017	282,620	301,808	2,009,524

Source: Annual Bulletin of Labour Force Sample Survey 2022

 

ANNEXED NOTE

 

1. Technical Notes and Definitions

 

The data is taken from Labour Force Survey 2022 (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 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).

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 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

Classifications used: ISCO-88; ISIC Rev. 4.

 

2. Institution which provides data

 

Planning and Statistics Authority

https://www.psa.gov.qa/en/Pages/default.aspx

 

3. Data availability

 

Labour Force Surveys (yearly and quarterly data) can be downloaded from PSA’s website, in PDF and Excel format:

https://www.psa.gov.qa/en/statistics1/pages/topicslisting.aspx?parent=Social&child=LaborForce

 

Last date of access: November 2023.

 

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, Labour Market, Employment, National & Foreign Labour, National Labour, Foreign Labour, Highly-Skilled Labour, Low-Skilled Labour

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