Qatari			Non-Qatari			Total
	Males	Females	Total	Males	Females	Total	Males	Females	Total
Agriculture, forestry and fishing	13	0	13	21,194	0	21,194	21,207	0	21,207
Mining and quarrying	7,557	1,054	8,611	84,620	2,177	86,797	92,177	3,231	95,408
Manufacturing	1,238	137	1,375	117,222	855	118,077	118,460	992	119,452
Electricity, gas, steam and air conditioning supply	1,191	272	1,463	6,865	434	7,299	8,056	706	8,762
Water supply; sewerage, waste management and remediation activities	221	101	322	2,410	86	2,496	2,631	187	2,818
Construction	1,026	288	1,314	564,312	3,050	567,362	565,338	3,338	568,676
Wholesale and retail trade; repair of motor vehicles and motorcycles	1,144	343	1,487	185,834	6,763	192,597	186,978	7,106	194,084
Transportation and storage	1,384	238	1,622	37,287	6,029	43,316	38,671	6,267	44,938
Accommodation and food service activities	444	326	770	34,769	3,369	38,138	35,213	3,695	38,908
Information and communication	1,945	761	2,706	7,435	2,406	9,841	9,380	3,167	12,547
Financial and insurance activities	1,433	1,694	3,127	7,262	2,086	9,348	8,695	3,780	12,475
Real estate activities	720	101	821	9,190	424	9,614	9,910	525	10,435
Professional, scientific and technical activities	277	189	466	26,495	1,598	28,093	26,772	1,787	28,559
Administrative and support service activities	333	643	976	43,619	3,341	46,960	43,952	3,984	47,936
Public administration and defence; compulsory social security	38,215	10,776	48,991	42,521	4,260	46,781	80,736	15,036	95,772
Education	1,779	9,347	11,126	11,644	16,920	28,564	13,423	26,267	39,690
Human health and social work activities	1,419	3,550	4,969	11,518	11,356	22,874	12,937	14,906	27,843
Arts, entertainment and recreation	470	351	821	7,320	935	8,255	7,790	1,286	9,076
Other service activities	78	76	154	5,799	1,029	6,828	5,877	1,105	6,982
Activities of households as employers; undifferentiated goods- and services-producing activities of households for own use	0	0	0	56,381	95,631	152,012	56,381	95,631	152,012
Activities of extraterritorial organizations and bodies	25	9	34	1,295	420	1,715	1,320	429	1,749
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

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