Qatar: Average weekly work hours of the employed population (aged 15 and above) by workers’ nationality (Qatari / non-Qatari), sex and occupation (2024)

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

Source: Annual Bulletin of Labour Force Sample Survey 2024

ANNEXED NOTE

1. Technical Notes and Definitions

The data is taken from Labour Force Survey 2024 (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.

Employed population:
Persons aged 15 years an above, who during the week preceding the survey:
a) Perform a work for a wage, salary, profits or household gains, whether it was in cash or in kind.
b) Are temporarily not employed, however, they still have an official relation with their work

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 in each nationality, sex and occupation category.

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: 05 May 2026.
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Keywords: Qatar, Labour Market, Employment, Female Employment, National & Foreign Labour, National Labour, Foreign Labour, Work Conditions