Oman: Employed population by nationality (Omani/ non-Omani), sex and education level (2017)

	Omanis			Expatriates			Total
	Males	Females	Total	Males	Females	Total	Males	Females	Total
Illiterate	5,093	1,512	6,605	36,143	4,724	40,867	41,236	6,236	47,472
Reads and writes	23,657	5,199	28,856	495,133	63,822	558,955	518,790	69,021	587,811
Primary	25,858	3,226	29,084	156,870	19,579	176,449	182,728	22,805	205,533
Preparatory	54,699	7,264	61,963	560,010	57,773	617,783	614,709	65,037	679,746
Secondary	100,894	37,389	138,283	225,278	17,099	242,377	326,172	54,488	380,660
Diploma	22,384	21,615	43,999	42,174	11,934	54,108	64,558	33,549	98,107
University	45,952	56,834	102,786	80,295	23,165	103,460	126,247	79,999	206,246
Higher Diploma	4,800	5,724	10,524	4,356	897	5,253	9,156	6,621	15,777
Master’s Degree	5,761	3,464	9,225	6,548	1,940	8,488	12,309	5,404	17,713
Ph.D	1,101	342	1,443	2,873	718	3,591	3,974	1,060	5,034
Not stated	1,464	136	1,600	15,063	5,678	20,741	16,527	5,814	22,341
Total	291,663	142,705	434,368	1,624,743	207,329	1,832,072	1,916,406	350,034	2,266,440

Source: NCSI. Statistical Yearbooks, 2009 to 2018

ANNEXED NOTE

1. Technical Notes and Definitions

Data refer to total employed population, in the public, private and domestic sectors.
Data for the governmental sector exclude Security and Defense personnels.
see: https://cbo.gov.om/sites/assets/Documents/English/Publications/AnnualReports/AnnualReport2017eng.pdf
Omanis in the private sector are registered with the Public Authority for Social Insurance (PASI).

2. Institution which provides data

National Center for Statistics and Information (NCSI)

3. Data availability

The data on employment by sector and nationality is available in NCSI’s Statistical Yearbooks (chapter “Employment”)
https://www.ncsi.gov.om/Elibrary/Pages/LibraryContentView.aspx
SYB 2018:
https://www.ncsi.gov.om/Elibrary/LibraryContentDoc/bar_Statistical%20Year%20Book%202018_a8b32d59-cdc9-4987-ba29-1e7ce78d5cca.pdf

Last date of access: November 2018.