Qataris			Non-Qataris			Total
	Males	Females	Total	Males	Females	Total	Males	Females	Total
Agriculture, forestry and fishing	26	0	26	18,081	55	18,136	18,107	55	18,162
Mining and quarrying	6,820	918	7,738	73,189	2,184	75,373	80,009	3,102	83,111
Manufacturing	807	111	918	101,308	580	101,888	102,115	691	102,806
Electricity, gas, steam and air conditioning supply	1,228	99	1,327	5,958	380	6,338	7,186	479	7,665
Water supply; sewerage, waste management and remediation activities	85	38	123	1,173	0	1,173	1,258	38	1,296
Construction	628	81	709	495,706	2,849	498,555	496,334	2,930	499,264
Wholesale and retail trade; repair of motor vehicles and motorcycles	1,083	368	1,451	162,753	5,155	167,908	163,836	5,523	169,359
Transportation and storage	1,356	110	1,466	31,581	5,228	36,809	32,937	5,338	38,275
Accommodation and food service activities	400	193	593	28,815	2,797	31,612	29,215	2,990	32,205
Information and communication	1,747	656	2,403	6,928	2,127	9,055	8,675	2,783	11,458
Financial and insurance activities	1,339	1,463	2,802	6,910	1,746	8,656	8,249	3,209	11,458
Real estate activities	583	86	669	8,382	283	8,665	8,965	369	9,334
Professional, scientific and technical activities	222	79	301	23,728	1,504	25,232	23,950	1,583	25,533
Administrative and support service activities	262	456	718	38,795	1,934	40,729	39,057	2,390	41,447
Public administration and defence; compulsory social security	35,974	9,489	45,463	31,761	4,316	36,077	67,735	13,805	81,540
Education	1,662	8,990	10,652	10,232	9,525	19,757	11,894	18,515	30,409
Human health and social work activities	1,119	3,397	4,516	10,595	8,399	18,994	11,714	11,796	23,510
Arts, entertainment and recreation	312	516	828	6,700	236	6,936	7,012	752	7,764
Other service activities	73	16	89	4,260	664	4,924	4,333	680	5,013
Activities of households as employers; undifferentiated goods- and services-producing activities of households for own use	0	0	0	49,543	90,361	139,904	49,543	90,361	139,904
Activities of extraterritorial organizations and bodies	15	6	21	1,334	325	1,659	1,349	331	1,680
Total	55,741	27,072	82,813	1,117,732	140,648	1,258,380	1,173,473	167,720	1,341,193

Source: Labour Force Bulletin 2012, Qatar Statistics Authority

 

ANNEXED NOTE

 

1. Technical Notes and Definitions

 

Sampling frame of LFB 2012: Population Census 2010.

Sample size: 6895 households and 37629 individuals from: 1- Qatari households; 2- Non-Qatari regular (non-collective) households; 3- Non-Qatari small collective households (2 – 6 persons); 4- Non-Qatari large collective households (7 persons or more).

Reference period for data collection: April 2012.

Reference period for the labor force data: the week prior to the reference period for data collection (April 2012).

Population of reference: all Qatari and non-Qatari households present in Qatar on the night of survey, living in normal and collective households.

The collective households are a group of persons not related to each other and sharing living conditions in a residential unit, I.e. labor camps, students living boarding schools, nurses in hospitals… etc. The survey covered the small collective households (includes less than 7 persons) and large collective households (includes 7 persons or more).

The survey did not cover short periods accommodation, i.e. hotels.

 

The table refers to the economically active population: People in the working age including employed and unemployed.

Employed population:

Persons aged 15 years an above, who during the week preceding the survey:

a) Perform a work for a wage, salary, profits or household gains, whether it was in cash or in kind.

b) Are temporarily not employed, however, they still have an official relation with their work

The table refers to employed workers (15 years or older) having worked no less than one hour during the week prior to data collection day in April 2012.

 

Unemployed population:

All persons aged 15 years and over who were, during the week preceding the survey, without work and were willing to work and looking seriously for work.

There is a distinction between two kinds of unemployed persons:

a) First time unemployed: They are the persons who never worked previously, and were during the week preceding the survey looking actively for work.

b)Unemployed who previously worked: They are the persons with previous experience work and during the week preceding the survey were actively looking for work.

 

The present table does not include the persons seeking work for the first time

 

Economic activities are categorised according to ISIC( Rev. 4) international classification of industries.

 

2. Institution which provides data

 

Qatar Statistics Authority (QSA)

https://www.mdps.gov.qa/en/Pages/default.aspx for website in English; https://www.mdps.gov.qa/ar/pages/default.aspx for website in Arabic)

 

3. Data availability

 

The Statistics Authority conducted the first labor Force Sample Survey in 2001. Starting from 2006, the execution of these surveys came to be on annual basis.

Most Labour Force Surveys and publications related to the labour force are available on QSA’s website, in PDF format and can be downloaded from:

https://www.mdps.gov.qa/en/statistics1/pages/topicslisting.aspx?parent=Social&child=LaborForce

Annual Bulletin of the Labour Force survey 2012 is available in PDf and Excel formats:

http://www.qix.gov.qa/portal/page/portal/QIXPOC/Documents/QIX%20Knowledge%20Base/Publication/Labor%20Force%20Researches/labor%20force%20sample%20survey/Source_QSA/Labour_Force_Statistics_QSA_Bu_AE_2012.pdf

https://www.mdps.gov.qa/en/statistics1/pages/topicslisting.aspx?parent=Social&child=LaborForce

 

See also Qatar Information Exchange, an interactive data base compiling data on the labour force taken from available surveys:

http://www.qix.gov.qa/portal/page/portal/qix/subject_area/Statistics?subject_area=183

 

Date of access: March 2014.

 

 

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