Qatar: Average weekly work hours of the employed population (aged 15 and above) by workers’ nationality (Qatari / non-Qatari), sex and occupation (2023)

	Qataris			Non-Qataris			Total
	Males	Females	Total	Males	Females	Total	Males	Females	Total
Legislators, Senior Officials and Managers	38	38	38	46	42	45	42	39	41
Professionals	38	38	38	43	39	42	42	39	41
Technicians and Associate Professionals	38	38	38	46	41	45	44	40	43
Clerks	39	38	39	45	41	44	42	39	41
Service Workers and Shop and Market Sales Workers	39	38	38	49	44	47	48	44	47
Skilled Agricultural and Fishery Workers	0	0	0	51	0	51	51	0	51
Craft and Related Trades Workers	39	0	39	50	47	50	50	47	50
Plant and Machine Operators And Assemblers	40	0	40	50	49	50	49	49	49
Elementary Occupations	39	38	39	51	50	51	50	50	50
Total	38	38	38	48	46	48	47	44	46

Source: Annual Bulletin of Labour Force Sample Survey 2023

ANNEXED NOTE

1. Technical Notes and Definitions

The data is taken from Labour Force Survey 2023 (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.

Hours worked during survey week: The number of hours actually worked during the survey week, including normal scheduled hours and additional hours (overtime).
“Average hours worked” is the average over all persons at work.

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: October 2025.
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.

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