Sector / Number of Employees
		Commercial														Government														Non Commercial Non Government
		0 -5		6 – 9		10 – 19		20 – 99		100 – 499		500+		Total		0 -5		6 – 9		10 – 19		20 – 99		100 – 499		500+		Total		0 -5		6 – 9		10 – 19		20 – 99		100 – 499		Total
		Employment	Dependent	Employment	Dependent	Employment	Dependent	Employment	Dependent	Employment	Dependent	Employment	Dependent	Employment	Dependent	Employment	Dependent	Employment	Dependent	Employment	Dependent	Employment	Dependent	Employment	Dependent	Employment	Dependent	Employment	Dependent	Employment	Dependent	Employment	Dependent	Employment	Dependent	Employment	Dependent	Employment	Dependent	Employment	Dependent
2009	Q3	8,528	1,431	2,347	505	2,204	567	4,613	1,366	2,579	869	2,347	457	22,618	5,195	1	7	12	17	1	6	61	113	144	175	305	202	524	520	621	36	136	17	40	8	136	31	138	97	1,071	189
	Q4	8,466	1,259	2,272	373	2,162	424	5,863	1,087	3,331	808	2,412	298	24,506	4,249	3	0	5	3	7	4	28	52	88	104	60	490	191	653	574	14	136	13	53	17	106	66	68	107	937	217
2010	Q1	7,133	1,413	3,063	596	2,381	631	5,583	1,475	3,319	1,029	2,414	452	23,893	5,596	2	6	2	5	18	11	28	77	60	108	106	266	216	473	574	32	129	7	36	27	92	45	48	61	879	172
	Q2	7,750	1,594	2,232	570	2,097	503	5,501	1,465	3,067	949	2,439	385	23,086	5,466	1	2	2	8	5	10	13	51	51	74	47	276	119	421	789	23	104	11	42	7	60	42	29	51	1,024	134
	Q3	7,888	1,457	2,092	531	2,285	569	5,324	1,445	3,506	904	2,683	363	23,778	5,904	2	4	6	2	8	25	27	52	117	102	230	159	390	344	576	32	147	10	53	7	122	40	133	93	1,031	182
	Q4	7,406	1,155	1,978	402	2,277	413	5,545	1,134	4,207	762	2,910	363	24,323	4,229	2	2	0	11	15	18	21	35	63	111	114	300	215	477	474	31	72	9	53	21	85	24	44	99	728	184
2011	Q1	6,639	1,284	1,866	393	2,371	538	4,941	1,044	3,531	786	2,785	387	22,133	4,432	5	0			7	12	23	40	57	114	74	318	166	484	395	15	89	9	24	8	87	44	35	32	630	108
	Q2	6,000	1,574	1,775	570	1,784	533	4,512	1,343	4,308	1,024	2,882	464	21,261	5,508	1	0	8	22	6	4	17	36	101	136	42	274	175	472	441	31	71	18	23	19	94	39	37	48	666	155
	Q3	7,771	1,432	2,299	436	2,494	606	5,711	1,140	4,133	867	5,023	463	27,431	4,944	3	1	2	7	3	10	19	37	147	152	372	168	546	375	528	29	90	3	28	10	98	29	189	60	933	131
	Q4	7,908	1,229	2,362	354	2,729	454	5,013	1,040	4,916	824	4,259	456	27,187	4,357	4	7	2	4	1	5	36	30	100	109	181	390	324	545	484	27	116	9	28	20	66	24	61	85	755	165
2012	Q1	8,691	1,622	2,965	548	2,945	569	5,636	1,341	4,026	1,112	5,140	777	29,403	5,969	3	6	2	1	4	18	58	61	118	83	232	295	417	464	435	39	106	1	43	13	70	26	43	41	697	120
	Q2	9,829	1,989	2,760	648	2,773	634	5,425	1,402	4,437	941	3,895	706	29,119	6,320		1		6	4	20	44	57	93	90	177	386	318	560	745	25	142	18	41	21	67	49	53	38	1,048	151
	Q3	9,579	1,893	2,626	563	2,590	627	5,800	1,377	4,842	1,109	3,872	563	29,309	6,132	4	3	3	5	7	13	45	49	103	137	393	214	555	421	727	30	160	27	56	11	138	67	138	75	1,219	210
	Q4	9,380	1,320	2,388	454	2,249	503	5,296	913	4,487	793	3,706	419	27,506	4,402	1	1	2	5	16	5	21	60	65	84	238	183	343	338	650	48	118	4	28	10	95	61	74	73	965	196
2013	Q1	11,093	2,155	2,646	681	2,570	606	6,220	1,587	4,586	1,140	3,857	583	30,972	6,752	3	9	2	1	2	14	40	53	76	89	113	556	236	722	717	43	117	11	34	10	78	67	46	31	992	162
	Q2	11,092	2,270	2,826	700	2,408	630	6,497	1,589	4,854	950	3,268	629	30,945	6,768	3	5			7	10	60	93	62	71	119	739	251	918	696	38	143	17	28	15	79	25	39	33	985	128
	Q3	9,989	1,805	2,736	571	2,015	554	4,821	1,311	4,617	895	2,907	510	27,085	5,646	2	4	10	8	4	6	26	37	103	114	611	216	756	385	609	43	119	25	37	10	81	36	154	103	1,000	217
	Q4	9,365	1,629	2,240	474	1,913	426	3,900	988	3,357	797	2,649	394	23,424	4,708	4	7	1	5	6	6	35	58	76	91	381	414	503	581	461	22	74	9	25	14	72	36	90	122	722	203
2014	Q1	10,188	2,238	2,558	606	2,217	573	4,878	1,288	3,638	944	2,811	421	26,290	6,070	3	3		2	4	8	34	100	97	84	78	561	216	758	426	30	94	10	24	15	49	35	77	37	670	127
	Q2	11,739	2,631	3,018	692	2,427	689	5,473	1,571	4,603	1,055	2,919	542	30,179	7,180	1	7	4	10	1	11	19	69	69	92	57	615	151	804	545	42	110	10	26	27	61	31	62	78	804	188

Source: Labour Market Regulatory Authority (LMRA), Expatriate Management System (EMS)
ANNEXED NOTE

1. Technical Notes and Definitions

This table shows the flow of new permits (or visas) that are given to employees and dependents by the LMRA by the size of establishment as per the number of their employees.
The LMRA Expatriate Management System (EMS) stores information and past history of sponsors and workers, and their dependents, within the scope of Law No. 19/2006 on regulating the labour market. The scope of the system covers regular, temporary and investor work visas for foreign workers, their dependents, in the commercial sector, the government sector and the non-commercial, non-government sector. It presently excludes domestic workers, and work visas for artists and certain other categories of workers in non-civilian organizations. It distinguishes four types of visas for operational purposes: regular work visas for workers with 24-month validity; temporary work visas issued for workers with 6-month validity; investor work visas issued for investors investing up to BD 100,000; and dependent visas issued for dependent members of eligible foreign workers.The system tracks visa applications, renewals, mobility of workers between employers and from one occupation to another as well as notification of termination and runaway workers, and in general all operations of LMRA including inspection and offence management. The system is updated continuously and linked with other labour-related databases of the Kingdom, including CIO, GDNPR, GOSI, PFC, CSB, Ministry of Labour (MoL), and Ministry of Industry and Commerce (MOIC).
Size of establishment is the number of persons engaged in an establishment at a given period, including, in principle, all employees and unpaid family workers as well as any working proprietor. In practice, it refers to the total number of employees registered by anemployer at the responsible administrative agency.
Work Visa is a legal certificate to allow a foreign worker to enter the country for working purposes for a period of two years with the possibility of renewal.
Worker is a generic term that refers to an employed person in general, or to an employee, a self-employed, or a particular category of worker, such as full-time or part-time worker, depending on the context in which the term is used. Four major categories of workers in terms of their status in employment are employees, employers, own-account workers, and unpaid family workers.

2. Institution which provides data

Labour Market Regulatory Authority (LMRA).

3. Data availability

The LMRA publishes these data under its Bahrain Labour Market Indicators (BLMI) section. The BLMI dashboard can be found in: (http://blmi.lmra.bh/2014/03/mi_dashboard.xml). The general BLMI data with other non-LMRA sources can be found: (http://blmi.lmra.bh/2014/03/mi_data.xml)
Figures and results are often reported in tables in both PDF and Excel formats.
Data for this LMRA table for 2009 can be found here: (http://blmi.lmra.bh/2009/09/data/lmr/Table_35b.pdf) and (http://blmi.lmra.bh/2009/12/data/lmr/Table_35b.pdf).
Data for 2010 can be found here: (http://blmi.lmra.bh/2010/03/data/ems/Table_35b.pdf), (http://blmi.lmra.bh/2010/06/data/ems/Table_35b.pdf), (http://blmi.lmra.bh/2010/09/data/ems/Table_35b.pdf) and (http://blmi.lmra.bh/2010/12/data/ems/Table_35b.pdf).
Data for 2011 can be found here: (http://blmi.lmra.bh/2011/03/data/ems/Table_35b.pdf), (http://blmi.lmra.bh/2011/06/data/ems/Table_35b.pdf), (http://blmi.lmra.bh/2011/09/data/ems/Table_35b.pdf) and (http://blmi.lmra.bh/2011/12/data/ems/Table_35b.pdf).
Data for 2012 can be found here: (http://blmi.lmra.bh/2012/03/data/ems/Table_35b.pdf), (http://blmi.lmra.bh/2012/06/data/ems/Table_35b.pdf), (http://blmi.lmra.bh/2012/09/data/ems/Table_35b.pdf) and (http://blmi.lmra.bh/2012/12/data/ems/Table_35b.pdf).
Data for 2013 can be found here: (http://blmi.lmra.bh/2013/03/data/ems/Table_35b.pdf), (http://blmi.lmra.bh/2013/06/data/ems/Table_35b.pdf), (http://blmi.lmra.bh/2013/09/data/ems/Table_35b.pdf) and (http://blmi.lmra.bh/2013/12/data/ems/Table_35b.pdf).
Data for 2014 can be found here: (http://blmi.lmra.bh/2014/03/data/ems/Table_35b.pdf) and (http://blmi.lmra.bh/2014/03/data/ems/Table_35b.pdf).
The definitions that the LMRA adopts for its data can be found in the Glossary section: (http://blmi.lmra.bh/mi_glossary.xml).

Date of access: September 2014

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