Economically-active population by nationality (Qatari/non-Qatari), sex and age group (2012)

	Qataris			Non-Qataris			Total
	Males	Females	Total	Males	Females	Total	Males	Females	Total
15 – 19	2,995	533	3,528	10,147	10,942	21,089	13,142	11,475	24,617
20 – 24	7,451	4,081	11,532	122,559	22,456	145,015	130,010	26,537	156,547
25 – 29	8,849	5,539	14,388	222,761	29,304	252,065	231,610	34,843	266,453
30 – 34	9,108	5,504	14,612	227,912	25,429	253,341	237,020	30,933	267,953
35 – 39	6,956	4,244	11,200	181,225	16,735	197,960	188,181	20,979	209,160
40 – 44	7,050	3,388	10,438	149,192	14,221	163,413	156,242	17,609	173,851
45 – 49	5,166	2,252	7,418	95,589	8,729	104,318	100,755	10,981	111,736
50 – 54	4,411	1,008	5,419	60,488	6,312	66,800	64,899	7,320	72,219
55 – 59	2,181	396	2,577	30,132	2,976	33,108	32,313	3,372	35,685
60 – 64	917	83	1,000	10,085	1,661	11,746	11,002	1,744	12,746
65 +	657	44	701	7,642	1,883	9,525	8,299	1,927	10,226
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

2. Institution which provides data

Qatar Statistics Authority (QSA)

(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 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.