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	Q2	158	46	91	2,960	2	6,200	3,875	1,337	471	470	1,457	11	245	45	334	0	523	18,225
	Q3	16	5	23	797	1	1,194	1,025	359	375	172	591	8	115	34	126	0	238	5,079
	Q4	13	14	37	1,222	8	1,820	1,784	466	202	268	625	3	77	25	165	0	198	6,927
2010	Q1	50	74	96	2,703	6	7,818	3,436	1,449	587	379	1,407	21	119	37	346	0	381	18,909
	Q2	52	70	52	2,562	1	6,518	3,596	1,492	877	475	1,645	34	297	65	371	0	553	18,660
	Q3	191	68	66	2,804	11	7,287	3,295	1,490	835	509	1,646	23	208	63	370	0	414	19,280
	Q4	123	171	56	2,641	1	6,931	3,818	1,467	770	427	1,499	27	85	82	391	0	74	18,563
2011	Q1	122	168	82	2,755	1	7,801	4,303	1,667	707	364	1,707	38	105	102	421	0	78	20,421
	Q2	156	136	98	2,907	9	7,646	4,088	1,725	638	496	2,126	168	288	105	413	0	114	21,113
	Q3	174	153	81	2,416	6	5,413	3,381	1,397	505	435	1,695	72	172	120	325	0	755	17,100
	Q4	134	151	73	2,377	7	6,849	3,579	1,449	560	359	1,383	108	101	97	337	1	606	18,171
2012	Q1	135	138	165	2,254	6	6,042	3,458	1,494	618	376	1,500	96	138	71	405	0	560	17,456
	Q2	120	112	78	2,418	11	5,615	3,728	1,501	637	473	1,548	291	286	95	366	0	366	17,645
	Q3	169	192	64	2,301	17	5,706	3,584	1,523	533	319	1,312	73	277	103	380	0	230	16,783
	Q4	149	211	108	2,725	19	7,983	4,256	1,801	590	386	1,730	60	174	119	502	0	276	21,089
2013	Q1	148	270	202	3,165	24	9,076	5,116	2,047	964	440	2,169	142	225	102	554	0	227	24,871
	Q2	140	274	233	3,252	84	7,991	5,226	2,004	1,105	559	2,321	363	466	85	639	0	183	24,925
	Q3	184	396	201	3,391	10	8,861	5,283	2,358	1,051	561	2,286	230	392	109	676	0	130	26,119
	Q4	260	300	231	3,717	91	9,357	5,930	2,363	915	539	2,804	182	207	103	852	0	161	28,012
2014	Q1	280	304	233	3,640	18	8,993	6,052	2,549	770	510	2,391	147	298	105	843	0	164	27,297
	Q2	274	376	234	3,434	10	9,563	5,719	2,380	756	439	2,267	400	379	111	899	0	200	27,441

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)

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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