Economically active population aged 15 and above by nationality (Qatari/ non-Qatari), sex and occupation (2013)

	Qatari			Non-Qatari			Total
	Males	Females	Total	Males	Females	Total	Males	Females	Total
Legislators, Senior Officials And Managers	6,622	1,704	8,326	29,327	3,402	32,729	35,949	5,106	41,055
Professionals	13,283	15,918	29,201	96,243	27,200	123,443	109,526	43,118	152,644
Technicians And Associate Professionals	10,553	4,040	14,593	64,310	9,632	73,942	74,863	13,672	88,535
Clerks	14,181	7,502	21,683	51,483	9,089	60,572	65,664	16,591	82,255
Service Workers And Shop And Market Sales Workers	4,692	809	5,501	84,500	20,967	105,467	89,192	21,776	110,968
Skilled Agricultural And Fishery Workers	0	0	0	12,419	0	12,419	12,419	0	12,419
Craft And Related Trades Workers	5,447	0	5,447	528,319	131	528,450	533,766	131	533,897
Plant And Machine Operators And Assemblers	1,225	0	1,225	171,193	261	171,454	172,418	261	172,679
Elementary Occupations	4,909	283	5,192	247,198	92,487	339,685	252,107	92,770	344,877
Total	60,912	30,256	91,168	1,284,992	163,169	1,448,161	1,345,904	193,425	1,539,329

Source: QSA, Ministry of Development Planning and Statistics
ANNEXED NOTE

1. Technical Notes and Definitions

The data is taken from 2013 Labour Force Survey (yearly synthesis)
Sampling frame of LFS 2013: Population Census 2010.
Sample size: 8,342 households and 55,771 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).
Data Collection: The sample was divided into equal parts to collect data monthly. Each month 1/3 of the quarterly data were collected during the first two weeks of the month.
Reference period for the labour force data: the week prior to data collection day.
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. labour 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 data refers to the economically active population, i.e., the employed and the unemployed
1) Employed.
All 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
2) Unemployed.
All persons aged 15 years and over who were, during the week preceding the survey, without employment, willing to work and looking seriously for a job.
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 a work experience, who during the week preceding the survey were actively looking for a job

This table does not include persons seeking work for the first time

2. Institution which provides data

Qatar Statistics Authority (QSA), Ministry of Development Planning and Statistics
(http://www.qsa.gov.qa/eng/index.htm for website in English; http://www.qsa.gov.qa/Ar/index.htm for website in Arabic)

3. Data availability

The Statistics Authority conducted the first labour Force Sample Survey in 2001. Starting from 2006, the execution of these surveys came to be on annual basis. Quarterly publications of Labour Force Surveys’ data are also available since 2012.
Most Labour Force Surveys and publications related to the labour force are available on QSA’s website, in PDF format. LFS 2013 can be downloaded from:
https://www.mdps.gov.qa/en/statistics1/pages/topicslisting.aspx?parent=Social&child=LaborForce
See also Qatar Information Exchange for earlier Labour Force Surveys. QIX has also 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