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	Qataris			Non-Qataris			Total
	Males	Females	Total	Males	Females	Total	Males	Females	Total
Illiterate	574	2,310	2,884	16,951	2,765	19,716	17,525	5,075	22,600
Read & Write	3,599	5,588	9,187	186,608	28,085	214,693	190,207	33,673	223,880
Primary	6,358	6,822	13,180	380,832	55,731	436,563	387,190	62,553	449,743
Preparatory	16,834	17,784	34,618	559,715	77,378	637,093	576,549	95,162	671,711
Secondary	37,860	28,511	66,371	299,605	86,728	386,333	337,465	115,239	452,704
Pre.U. Diploma	3,392	4,480	7,872	87,603	19,735	107,338	90,995	24,215	115,210
University and above	30,804	38,301	69,105	254,858	114,663	369,521	285,662	152,964	438,626
Total	99,421	103,796	203,217	1,786,172	385,085	2,171,257	1,885,593	488,881	2,374,474

Source: Annual Bulletin of Labor Force Sample survey 2018
 
ANNEXED NOTE
 
1. Technical Notes and Definitions

The data is taken from 2018 Labour Force Survey (yearly synthesis)
Sampling frame of LFS 2018: Census of Population, Housing, and Establishments 2015.
Sample size: 60,238 persons, in 9,200 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).
Data Collection: data was collected monthly.
Reference period for the labour force data: the week prior to data collection day.
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. labour camps, students living in 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.

2. Institution which provides data 

Planning and Statistics Authority
(https://www.psa.gov.qa/en/Pages/default.aspx)

3. Data availability

The Statistics Authority conducted the first labour Force Sample Survey in 2001. Starting from 2006, the execution of these surveys came to be on annual basis, and on a quarterly basis since 2013.
Labour Force Surveys (yearly and quarterly data) can be downloaded from MDPS’s website, in PDF and Excel format:
https://www.psa.gov.qa/en/statistics1/pages/topicslisting.aspx?parent=Social&child=LaborForce
Labour Force 2018:
https://www.psa.gov.qa/en/statistics/Statistical%20Releases/Social/LaborForce/2018/Annual_Bulletin_Labour_force_2018_AE.xls
Statistical analysis of LFS 2018:
https://www.psa.gov.qa/en/statistics/Statistical%20Releases/Social/LaborForce/2018/statistical_analysis_labor_force_2018_En.pdf

Last date of access: October 2019.

 

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