Agriculture, hunting and forestry	Fishing	Mining and quarrying	Manufacturing	Electricity, gas and water supply	Construction	Wholesale and retail trade, repair	Hotels and restaurants	Transport, storage, communication	Financial intermediation	Real estate, renting, business activities	Public administration	Education	Health and social work	Other social, personal services	Extra-territorial organizations, bodies	Not specified	Total
2009	Q3	216	38	229	4,989	20	9,486	7,419	2,076	1,420	767	2,380	63	217	45	690	0	1,321	31,376
	Q4	228	44	285	6,297	22	11,614	9,632	2,576	1,411	940	2,943	100	480	81	660	0	2,105	39,418
2010	Q1	204	71	474	7,311	29	13,854	11,587	3,346	1,606	1,648	3,941	180	532	163	783	0	2,539	48,268
	Q2	97	69	276	5,605	15	10,384	7,950	2,210	1,442	1,384	3,636	79	697	161	642	0	1,493	36,140
	Q3	58	27	128	3,534	7	7,847	4,969	1,423	854	680	1,788	28	205	71	364	0	642	22,625
	Q4	198	149	278	4,099	13	9,824	7,108	2,138	1,120	979	2,821	1,633	474	214	585	0	457	32,090
2011	Q1	277	149	385	6,003	35	10,747	9,974	2,554	1,650	1,446	3,684	2,035	613	296	722	0	693	41,263
	Q2	281	181	405	5,961	43	9,153	9,529	2,474	1,461	1,285	3,508	993	884	199	795	0	496	37,648
	Q3	195	199	273	4,800	48	6,956	7,848	1,972	1,210	806	2,513	683	328	125	761	0	472	29,189
	Q4	271	193	248	5,960	44	9,633	8,789	2,586	1,309	979	3,198	832	485	187	817	0	430	35,961
2012	Q1	315	273	328	6,459	33	12,043	10,322	3,086	1,487	1,513	3,564	1,812	569	279	880	1	530	43,494
	Q2	276	289	306	5,686	54	10,621	9,192	2,423	1,449	1,437	3,487	1,356	922	318	897	1	504	39,218
	Q3	261	348	310	4,998	69	9,484	8,439	2,190	1,183	988	2,722	1,200	437	268	704	0	445	34,046
	Q4	263	307	252	4,934	46	10,384	9,017	2,519	1,312	1,012	2,702	1,306	465	293	824	0	392	36,028
2013	Q1	294	228	353	5,294	41	9,956	10,223	2,573	1,532	1,331	3,542	1,645	611	309	778	0	695	39,405
	Q2	291	192	286	5,652	71	9,644	9,931	2,614	1,434	1,331	3,752	1,990	895	217	847	0	607	39,754
	Q3	273	260	343	5,321	23	9,788	9,236	2,390	1,254	973	3,131	900	395	152	866	0	453	35,758
	Q4	311	304	379	5,910	51	11,647	10,412	2,949	1,400	1,010	3,252	988	454	222	945	0	518	40,752
2014	Q1	334	274	506	6,876	40	13,778	11,858	3,607	1,542	1,401	3,815	2,450	589	343	1,159	3	618	49,193
	Q2	410	271	458	6,438	82	12,658	11,202	3,239	1,648	1,364	3,756	1,928	1,016	345	1,014	0	724	46,553

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

ANNEXED NOTE

1. Technical Notes and Definitions

This table shows the flow of renewed permits (or visas) that are given to foreigners by the LMRA by sector of economic activity. These renwed visas combine those given for regular and temporary workers, investors and dependents.
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).
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_36a.pdf) and (http://blmi.lmra.bh/2009/12/data/lmr/Table_36a.pdf).
Data for 2010 can be found here: (http://blmi.lmra.bh/2010/03/data/ems/Table_36a.pdf), (http://blmi.lmra.bh/2010/06/data/ems/Table_36a.pdf), (http://blmi.lmra.bh/2010/09/data/ems/Table_36a.pdf) and (http://blmi.lmra.bh/2010/12/data/ems/Table_36a.pdf).
Data for 2011 can be found here: (http://blmi.lmra.bh/2011/03/data/ems/Table_36a.pdf), (http://blmi.lmra.bh/2011/06/data/ems/Table_36a.pdf), (http://blmi.lmra.bh/2011/09/data/ems/Table_36a.pdf) and (http://blmi.lmra.bh/2011/12/data/ems/Table_36a.pdf).
Data for 2012 can be found here: (http://blmi.lmra.bh/2012/03/data/ems/Table_36a.pdf), (http://blmi.lmra.bh/2012/06/data/ems/Table_36a.pdf), (http://blmi.lmra.bh/2012/09/data/ems/Table_36a.pdf) and (http://blmi.lmra.bh/2012/12/data/ems/Table_36a.pdf).
Data for 2013 can be found here: (http://blmi.lmra.bh/2013/03/data/ems/Table_36a.pdf), (http://blmi.lmra.bh/2013/06/data/ems/Table_36a.pdf), (http://blmi.lmra.bh/2013/09/data/ems/Table_36a.pdf) and (http://blmi.lmra.bh/2013/12/data/ems/Table_36a.pdf).
Data for 2014 can be found here: (http://blmi.lmra.bh/2014/03/data/ems/Table_36a.pdf) and (http://blmi.lmra.bh/2014/06/data/ems/Table_36a.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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