Kuwaitis	Non-Kuwaitis								Total labour force
		Arabs	Asians	Africans	Europeans	N. Americans	S. Americans	Aus.- Oceanians	Total non-Kuwaitis
Legislators, senior officials and managers	11,502	28,358	18,520	243	1,546	1,277	126	137	50,207	61,709
Professionals	82,052	91,365	32,996	573	3,352	2,596	245	321	131,448	213,500
Technicians and associate professionals	120,913	30,004	66,364	246	1,075	1,832	108	40	99,669	220,582
Clerks	126,647	68,889	47,231	582	751	463	57	42	118,015	244,662
Service workers and shop and market sales workers	68,715	130,953	596,813	36,604	1,382	663	140	38	766,593	835,308
Skilled agricultural and fishery workers	149	5,507	17,660	167	4	0	0	0	23,338	23,487
Craft and related trades workers	9,525	81,116	189,601	458	609	581	66	32	272,463	281,988
Production supervisors and foremen	4,332	93,529	372,052	2,139	671	1,719	72	24	470,206	474,538
Regular work professionals	71	90,159	240,510	1,855	132	522	12	9	333,199	333,270
Not Stated	1,418	46,696	83,066	1,096	1,090	826	72	79	132,925	134,343
Total	425,324	666,576	1,664,813	43,963	10,612	10,479	898	722	2,398,063	2,823,387

Source: PACI
 
ANNEXED NOTE
 
1. Characteristics of data and definitions

The source of data used here is the Public Authority for Civil Information (PACI), an independant government body in charge of :
1- centralising all population and labour force data in order to manage a fully computerised population register
2- issuing mandatory civil identification cards to every resident of the country, regardless of age and nationality.

The Biduns, stateless persons living in the Emirate, are counted with the non-nationals.

Data refer to the population employed and unemployed, registered in the three sectors of employment (public, private, domestic)
Employed population in the labour force: population aged 15 years and above, in paid employment in the government or private sector, as itinerant worker, or in the domestic sector.

Note: figures of expatriates may differ slightly between PACI’s various sources of data (database; tabulated data) and topic covered.

2. Institution which provides data 

The Public Authority for Civil Information (PACI)

3. Period of data coverage: December 2018

The database is updated three times a year and the website presents only the most recent data.

4. Data availability 

The statistics section of PACI’s website (“Statistical Reports”) (http://stat.paci.gov.kw/englishreports/ (English); http://stat.paci.gov.kw/arabicreports/ (Arabic))
provides population and socio-economic data broken down by nationality (Kuwaiti/ non-Kuwaiti). Some data are displayed by nationality groups.
Analytical tables and data crosstabulations are available for download in PDF, html, .png and Excel (.csv) formats.

Date of access: February 2019.

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