occupation/ profession
	Legislators, Senior Officials and Managers	Professionals	Technicians and Associate Professionals	Clerks	Service Workers and Shop and Market Sales Workers	Skilled Agricultural and Fishery Workers	Craft and Related Trades Workers	Plant and Machine Operators And Assemblers	Elementary Occupations	Total
Agriculture, forestry and fishing	68	292	295	39	603	17,485	2,607	1,703	1,824	24,916
Mining and quarrying	3,801	13,101	9,735	4,129	5,812	0	42,724	8,852	12,386	100,540
Manufacturing	2,470	11,118	15,159	4,872	6,082	0	59,543	32,231	12,568	144,043
Electricity, gas, steam and air conditioning supply	598	3,114	1,820	1,463	2,507	0	5,255	1,538	1,074	17,369
Water supply; sewerage, waste management and remediation activities	176	1,127	556	602	381	0	3,545	620	2,175	9,182
Construction	7,998	36,923	46,086	17,554	8,841	629	461,554	114,787	152,880	847,252
Wholesale and retail trade; repair of motor vehicles and motorcycles	8,499	18,635	15,290	20,149	68,667	1,813	63,777	29,388	28,714	254,932
Transportation and storage	1,158	4,411	4,683	7,329	7,103	0	6,598	22,524	5,313	59,119
Accommodation and food service activities	1,295	2,525	1,838	6,144	36,710	0	2,221	4,915	17,034	72,682
Information and communication	1,408	6,563	4,092	1,687	176	0	88	131	1,468	15,613
Financial and insurance activities	2,653	5,435	1,870	2,886	126	0	0	676	2,092	15,738
Real estate activities	980	2,252	1,998	1,137	2,229	0	1,247	1,073	1,261	12,177
Professional, scientific and technical activities	1,895	6,742	2,127	3,777	804	0	2,349	2,617	8,508	28,819
Administrative and support service activities	1,176	4,414	5,720	3,486	10,973	2,318	12,238	8,514	36,010	84,849
Public administration and defence; compulsory social security	4,489	17,855	10,335	22,299	8,213	2,936	7,875	5,020	8,259	87,281
Education	2,193	28,855	3,163	3,767	5,232	0	46	965	2,832	47,053
Human health and social work activities	822	16,007	7,115	3,245	1,098	0	59	831	782	29,959
Arts, entertainment and recreation	281	1,469	1,974	833	342	0	156	470	755	6,280
Other service activities	471	2,883	2,389	2,561	4,726	0	433	160	2,569	16,192
Activities of households as employers; undifferentiated goods- and services-producing activities of households for own use	0	1,410	545	448	23,855	69	14	56,735	90,666	173,742
Activities of extraterritorial organizations and bodies	322	1,985	1,316	906	0	0	0	155	265	4,949
Total	42,753	187,116	138,106	109,313	194,480	25,250	672,329	293,905	389,435	2,052,687

Source: Annual Bulletin of Labor Force Sample survey 2016
 
ANNEXED NOTE
 
1. Technical Notes and Definitions

The data is taken from 2016 Labour Force Survey (yearly synthesis)
Sampling frame of LFS 2016: Population Census 2010.
Sample size: 60,016 persons, in 9,199 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: 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.
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 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.
The present data includes active population, i.e. employed and unemployed. It does not include persons seeking work for the first time

Relation to labour force (for persons aged 15 and above)
In the labour force (= economically active).
1) Employed.
All persons aged 15 years and 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
2) Unemployed. 
All persons aged 15 years and over who were, during the week preceding the survey, without employment, willing to work and looking seriously for a job.
There is a distinction between two kinds of unemployed persons:
a) First time unemployed: They are the persons who never worked previously, and were during the week preceding the survey looking actively for work.
b) Unemployed who previously worked: They are the persons with a work experience, who during the week preceding the survey were actively looking for a job

2. Institution which provides data 

Ministry of Development Planning and Statistics
(http://www.mdps.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:
http://www.mdps.gov.qa/en/statistics1/pages/topicslisting.aspx?parent=Social&child=LaborForce

Last date of access: May 2018.

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