Oman: Employed population by nationality (Omani/ non-Omani), sex and sector of economic activity (private and domestic sectors) (2017)

	Omanis			Expatriates			Total
	Males	Females	Total	Males	Females	Total	Males	Females	Total
Agriculture, forestry & fishing	764	313	1,077	91,177	172	91,349	91,941	485	92,426
Mining & quarrying	26,574	2,101	28,675	17,601	701	18,302	44,175	2,802	46,977
Manufacturing	20,653	5,615	26,268	217,198	997	218,195	237,851	6,612	244,463
Electricity, gas, steam and air conditioning supply	2,347	365	2,712	1,034	9	1,043	3,381	374	3,755
Water supply, sewerage, waste management and remediation activities	991	116	1,107	4,847	17	4,864	5,838	133	5,971
Construction	44,731	11,282	56,013	618,821	923	619,744	663,552	12,205	675,757
Wholesale, retail trade & repair of motor vehicles and motorcycles	24,168	12,179	36,347	233,471	5,966	239,437	257,639	18,145	275,784
Transport, storage	13,785	2,745	16,530	70,741	1,607	72,348	84,526	4,352	88,878
Accommodation and food service activities	5,456	2,493	7,949	113,675	3,233	116,908	119,131	5,726	124,857
Financial and insurance activities	8,517	7,500	16,017	3,712	402	4,114	12,229	7,902	20,131
Real estate activities	686	292	978	5,782	116	5,898	6,468	408	6,876
Professional, scientific and technical activities	3,591	2,160	5,751	17,440	1,325	18,765	21,031	3,485	24,516
Administrative and support services activities	12,681	4,144	16,825	70,648	2,388	73,036	83,329	6,532	89,861
Education	2,526	3,978	6,504	7,507	8,530	16,037	10,033	12,508	22,541
Human health and social work activities	2,455	2,349	4,804	8,263	6,352	14,615	10,718	8,701	19,419
Arts, entertainment and recreation	364	168	532	2,749	647	3,396	3,113	815	3,928
Other service activities	4,863	1,359	6,222	58,045	5,749	63,794	62,908	7,108	70,016
Activities of households as employers; undifferentiated goods- and services- producing activities of households for own use	14	0	14	51,549	154,080	205,629	51,563	154,080	205,643
Activities of extraterritorial organizations and bodies	6	3	9	711	333	1,044	717	336	1,053
Total	178,021	60,667	238,688	1,601,695	193,994	1,795,689	1,779,716	254,661	2,034,377

Source: NCSI.

ANNEXED NOTE

1. Technical Notes and Definitions

Data refer to the population employed in the private and domestic sectors only (agregated figures).
Figures do not include independent, own-account workers.
Period of reference: end of year.
Classification of economic activities: ISIC Rev.4 (2008).

2. Institution which provides data

National Center for Statistics and Information (NCSI)

3. Data availability

The data 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.