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
		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	Q2	118	9	46		82	9	2,401	328	1	1	5,664	299	3,197	587	1,231	103	336	108	237	232	1,036	382	11		176	69	39	6	329	5	0	0	381	141	15,285	2,279
	Q3	13	3	5	0	13	10	660	97	1		1,079	94	781	229	313	45	209	166	80	92	423	160	2	6	63	52	29	5	120	6	0	0	155	83	3,946	1,048
	Q4	13	0	11	3	22	15	980	95	4	4	1,663	108	1,120	244	437	28	153	45	137	129	440	149	3	0	54	23	20	5	162	3	0	0	153	45	5,372	896
2010	Q1	41	7	73	1	83	13	2,153	195	3	3	7,012	302	2,843	497	1,368	79	479	102	207	169	1,018	331	6	15	84	35	29	8	340	6	0	0	308	71	16,047	1,834
	Q2	52	0	69	1	36	16	2,179	292	1		5,879	310	2,925	584	1,401	91	719	156	260	211	1,184	423	16	18	175	122	46	19	351	20	0	0	374	175	15,667	2,438
	Q3	182	7	67	1	61	5	2,519	236	5	6	6,788	273	2,768	458	1,418	72	694	140	286	222	1,169	401	14	9	110	98	47	16	359	10	0	0	323	88	16,810	2,042
	Q4	123	0	171	0	41	15	2,310	200	1	0	6,542	201	3,298	481	1,402	64	623	146	225	202	1,136	333	18	9	63	22	62	20	378	13	0	0	43	31	16,436	1,737
2011	Q1	105	17	168	0	74	8	2,378	196	1	0	7,235	300	3,392	673	1,562	105	571	135	196	166	1,337	335	20	18	64	41	75	27	405	16	0	0	47	31	17,630	2,068
	Q2	146	10	132	4	73	22	2,292	304	3	6	7,030	367	3,287	700	1,618	107	482	154	253	242	1,481	603	94	74	198	88	81	24	384	29	0	0	60	53	17,614	2,787
	Q3	168	6	153	0	61	20	2,069	192	5	1	5,040	260	2,839	521	1,296	99	393	112	230	205	1,203	463	31	41	110	62	101	19	318	7	0	0	692	63	14,709	2,071
	Q4	134	0	151	0	51	21	2,046	193	5	2	6,380	342	2,991	573	1,348	95	433	125	201	155	1,024	327	25	83	74	27	79	18	329	8	1	0	491	115	15,763	2,084
2012	Q1	132	3	138	0	76	88	1858	272	6	0	5591	384	2846	603	1386	105	456	161	205	169	1031	441	21	75	88	50	59	12	388	16	0	0	469	91	14,750	2,470
	Q2	113	7	110	2	45	29	1911	309	5	6	5163	384	3037	679	1399	96	489	148	248	223	1085	411	121	170	198	88	66	29	353	13	0	0	296	70	14,639	2,664
	Q3	162	7	192	0	41	17	1894	227	11	6	5040	326	2945	605	1423	94	408	122	176	141	1000	280	36	37	140	137	73	30	363	17	0	0	193	37	14,097	2,083
	Q4	148	1	209	2	78	26	2091	249	13	6	6574	467	3437	665	1677	120	452	134	200	186	1296	394	27	33	113	61	92	27	463	39	0	0	221	54	17,091	2,464
2013	Q1	139	9	268	2	132	45	2,571	328	12	12	7,493	559	4,087	936	1,893	153	701	258	234	204	1,519	586	51	91	130	92	78	24	533	21	0	0	157	70	19,998	3,390
	Q2	138	2	274	0	139	68	2,575	336	8	6	7,212	654	4,057	1,058	1,847	155	722	382	297	262	1,607	647	118	245	288	178	62	23	593	45	0	0	120	63	20,057	4,124
	Q3	182	2	391	5	143	46	2,760	352	5		8,125	672	4,327	880	2,153	201	818	224	302	257	1,748	493	73	157	220	172	79	28	639	36	0	0	86	44	22,051	3,569
	Q4	253	7	299	1	167	43	3,128	352	14	12	8,669	621	4,960	930	2,174	188	659	252	269	268	2,181	585	68	114	129	78	76	27	803	48	0	0	108	53	23,957	3,579
2014	Q1	270	10	303	1	143	56	2,932	455	11	7	8,340	603	4,782	1,218	2,307	235	544	219	281	225	1,744	614	64	83	171	126	73	32	801	42	0	0	88	76	22,854	4,002
	Q2	266	8	370	6	141	65	2,781	418	4	2	8,399	661	4,517	1,099	2,191	186	544	205	229	206	1,667	544	204	196	283	96	79	32	820	32	0	0	115	85	22,610	3,841

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. 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).
Termination refers to an employer’s application to the LMRA announcing the end of employment of a foraign worker in theeconomic unit (CR/Branch)
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.
* When there is a discrepancy between the calculated total and that shown in the LMRA original table (such as in Q2 2014 for Dependent visas), the calculated total is used.

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/2009/06/data/lmr/Table_37a.pdf), (http://blmi.lmra.bh/2009/09/data/lmr/Table_37a.pdf) and (http://blmi.lmra.bh/2009/12/data/lmr/Table_37a.pdf).
Data for 2010 can be found here: (http://blmi.lmra.bh/2010/03/data/ems/Table_37a.pdf), (http://blmi.lmra.bh/2010/06/data/ems/Table_37a.pdf), (http://blmi.lmra.bh/2010/09/data/ems/Table_37a.pdf) and (http://blmi.lmra.bh/2010/12/data/ems/Table_37a.pdf)
Data for 2011 can be found here: (http://blmi.lmra.bh/2011/03/data/ems/Table_37a.pdf), (http://blmi.lmra.bh/2011/06/data/ems/Table_37a.pdf), (http://blmi.lmra.bh/2011/09/data/ems/Table_37a.pdf) and (http://blmi.lmra.bh/2011/12/data/ems/Table_37a.pdf)
Data for 2012 can be found here: (http://blmi.lmra.bh/2012/03/data/ems/Table_37a.pdf), (http://blmi.lmra.bh/2012/06/data/ems/Table_37a.pdf), (http://blmi.lmra.bh/2012/09/data/ems/Table_37a.pdf) and (http://blmi.lmra.bh/2012/12/data/ems/Table_37a.pdf).
Data for 2013 can be found here: (http://blmi.lmra.bh/2013/03/data/ems/Table_37a.pdf), (http://blmi.lmra.bh/2013/06/data/ems/Table_37a.pdf), (http://blmi.lmra.bh/2013/09/data/ems/Table_37a.pdf) and (http://blmi.lmra.bh/2013/12/data/ems/Table_37a.pdf).
Data for 2014 can be found here: (http://blmi.lmra.bh/2014/03/data/ems/Table_37a.pdf) and (http://blmi.lmra.bh/2014/06/data/ems/Table_37a.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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