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
2009	Q1	3,297	1,232	1,496	4,318	3,989	4,113	18,445	3	7	9	33	45	75	172	190	61	27	28	27	333
	Q2	3,424	1,329	1,606	3,869	3,268	3,788	17,284	6	1	4	30	72	233	346	204	57	39	67	109	476
	Q3	3,172	1,125	1,604	3,454	3,023	3,747	16,125	0	1	1	53	97	35	187	196	32	24	68	74	394
	Q4	3,639	1,254	1,636	3,605	2,868	3,937	16,939	0	8	23	0	38	39	108	221	37	22	53	30	363
2010	Q1	3,924	1,312	1,593	4,466	3,646	3,390	18,331	0	3	8	23	60	53	147	281	41	12	40	57	431
	Q2	4,331	1,160	1,568	4,440	3,010	3,186	17,695	1	1	8	41	100	234	385	291	34	17	78	160	580
	Q3	4,379	1,320	1,716	4,574	4,033	2,551	18,573	1	0	9	47	127	71	255	276	35	22	57	62	452
	Q4	4,954	1,471	1,928	3,802	2,912	2,978	18,045	0	0	3	33	42	35	113	288	31	20	41	25	405
2011	Q1	4,969	1,449	2,418	4,939	2,917	3,175	19,867	1	1	26	33	64	40	165	267	24	22	51	25	389
	Q2	5,492	1,610	2,182	4,326	3,406	3,231	20,247	4	3	5	38	82	162	294	251	37	33	99	152	572
	Q3	4,883	1,322	1,795	3,581	2,859	2,036	16,476	4	0	13	27	100	59	203	260	39	23	37	62	421
	Q4	5,003	1,436	1,904	3,329	3,689	2,174	17,535	5	1	11	36	86	104	243	234	52	26	39	42	393
2012	Q1	5,059	1,413	1,797	3,757	2,630	2,162	16,818	5	1	9	22	97	86	220	232	52	38	56	40	418
	Q2	4,859	1,573	1,800	3,626	2,618	2,213	16,689	0	1	7	30	90	292	420	202	43	21	103	167	536
	Q3	4,633	1,240	1,725	3,374	2,825	2,280	16,077	2	0	11	28	79	63	183	277	59	20	65	102	523
	Q4	5,377	1,522	2,072	4,037	3,597	3,756	20,361	1	4	2	36	60	63	166	344	58	22	55	83	562
2013	Q1	6,524	1,780	2,296	4,610	3,991	4,702	23,903		5	3	40	133	141	322	418	63	31	91	43	646
	Q2	6,614	1,796	2,367	4,373	4,018	4,324	23,492	4	6	5	21	153	380	569	395	85	57	162	165	864
	Q3	7,345	1,983	2,541	4,390	4,219	4,379	24,857	8	13	3	37	108	217	386	507	97	31	148	93	876
	Q4	8,767	2,376	3,013	4,761	4,277	3,799	26,993	9	3	13	59	65	188	337	411	85	25	87	74	682
2014	Q1	8,703	2,270	2,667	4,652	4,157	3,786	26,235	1	26	1	51	95	149	323	447	56	87	66	83	739
	Q2	7,987	2,096	2,443	5,027	4,275	4,060	25,888	10	8	5	79	127	398	627	532	94	24	107	169	926

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)
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.

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/2009/03/data/ems/Table_37b.pdf), (http://blmi.lmra.bh/2009/06/data/ems/Table_37b.pdf) and (http://blmi.lmra.bh/2009/09/data/ems/Table_37b.pdf) and (http://blmi.lmra.bh/2009/12/data/ems/Table_37b.pdf).
Data for 2010 can be found here: (http://blmi.lmra.bh/2010/03/data/ems/Table_37b.pdf), (http://blmi.lmra.bh/2010/06/data/ems/Table_37b.pdf), (http://blmi.lmra.bh/2010/09/data/ems/Table_37b.pdf) and (http://blmi.lmra.bh/2010/12/data/ems/Table_37b.pdf)
Data for 2011 can be found here: (http://blmi.lmra.bh/2011/03/data/ems/Table_37b.pdf), (http://blmi.lmra.bh/2011/06/data/ems/Table_37b.pdf), (http://blmi.lmra.bh/2011/09/data/ems/Table_37b.pdf) and (http://blmi.lmra.bh/2011/12/data/ems/Table_37b.pdf)
Data for 2012 can be found here: (http://blmi.lmra.bh/2012/03/data/ems/Table_37b.pdf), (http://blmi.lmra.bh/2012/06/data/ems/Table_37b.pdf), (http://blmi.lmra.bh/2012/09/data/ems/Table_37b.pdf) and (http://blmi.lmra.bh/2012/12/data/ems/Table_37b.pdf).
Data for 2013 can be found here: (http://blmi.lmra.bh/2013/03/data/ems/Table_37b.pdf), (http://blmi.lmra.bh/2013/06/data/ems/Table_37b.pdf), (http://blmi.lmra.bh/2013/09/data/ems/Table_37b.pdf) and (http://blmi.lmra.bh/2013/12/data/ems/Table_37b.pdf).
Data for 2014 can be found here: (http://blmi.lmra.bh/2014/03/data/ems/Table_37b.pdf) and (http://blmi.lmra.bh/2014/06/data/ems/Table_37b.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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