Qataris		Non-Qataris		Total
	Males	Females	Males	Females	Males	Females
Legislators, Senior Officials and Managers	10,359	3,664	43,573	4,492	53,932	8,156
Professionals	19,010	24,325	194,427	101,501	213,437	125,826
Technicians and Associate Professionals	14,082	5,821	164,927	34,170	179,009	39,991
Clerks	23,697	16,948	117,664	38,302	141,361	55,250
Service Workers and Shop and Market Sales Workers	2,408	1,350	165,652	57,582	168,060	58,932
Skilled Agricultural and Fishery Workers	0	0	32,126	0	32,126	0
Craft and Related Trades Workers	2,648	0	556,751	1,529	559,399	1,529
Plant and Machine Operators and Assemblers	1,671	0	298,864	517	300,535	517
Elementary Occupations	1,043	451	210,334	90,618	211,377	91,069
Total	74,918	52,559	1,784,318	328,711	1,859,236	381,270

Source: Annual Bulletin of Labour Force Sample Survey 2024

ANNEXED NOTE

1. Technical Notes and Definitions

The data is taken from Labour Force Survey 2024 (yearly synthesis)
Sampling frame : Population Census 2020.
Sample size: 65,253 persons, in 10,560 households: 1- Qatari households; 2- Non-Qatari regular (non-collective) households;
3- Non-Qatari small collective households or labour gatherings (2 – 6 persons); 4- Non-Qatari large collective households or large labour gatherings (7 persons or more).
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).
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.
The survey does not cover short periods accommodation, i.e. hotels.

Labour force: People in 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
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.
These are:
First time unemployed: They are the persons who never worked previously, and were during the week preceding the survey looking actively for work.
Unemployed who previously worked: They are the persons with previous experience work and during the week preceding the survey were actively looking for work.

Data does not include those seeking employment for the first time.

Classification of occupations used: ISCO-88.

2. Institution which provides data

National Planning Council (NPC), formerly the Planning and Statistics Authority (PSA)
https://www.npc.qa/en/pages/default.aspx
https://www.npc.qa/ar/pages/default.aspx

3. Data availability

Annual and quarterly bulletins of Labour Force Surveys reports can be downloaded from NPC’s website, in PDF and/or Excel formats:
https://www.npc.qa/en/statistics/pages/subjectdetails.aspx

Last date of access: 05 May 2026.
GLMM and GRC cannot guarantee that the link to access the source will not change; 
that the information will not be removed from the website it was obtained from;
that no geo-blockages will be imposed; or that the information will not be available for any another reason.

Keywords: Qatar, Employment, Female Employment, National Labour, Foreign Labour

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