Qatar: Economically active non-Qataris (aged 15 years and above) by sex, educational status and sector (2021)

   

Govern-ment Dpt

Govern-ment Company/ Corpora-tion

Mixed

Private

Diplomatic/Internatio-nal/ Regional

Non-profit

Domestic

Total

Illiterate

males

0

0

0

14,697

0

0

0

14,697

females

0

0

0

0

0

0

98

98

males

411

668

483

151,253

0

0

10,591

163,406

females

0

0

0

2,532

0

0

11,819

14,351

Primary

males

2,836

980

1,605

318,476

41

17

21,815

345,770

females

215

0

0

4,910

0

0

20,285

25,410

Preparatory

males

6,815

3,533

3,049

406,889

86

25

24,865

445,262

females

391

836

54

12,724

0

0

30,225

44,230

Secondary

males

16,756

6,969

2,833

204,799

1,963

277

6,830

240,427

females

1,732

2,266

139

25,234

367

195

29,057

58,990

Pre.U. Diploma

males

2,551

1,979

2,245

37,329

123

0

201

44,428

females

322

1,092

82

9,551

0

0

865

11,912

University and above

males

30,422

23,797

10,703

320,548

2,735

977

111

389,293

females

14,283

10,872

1,849

75,176

1,520

81

4,024

107,805

Total

males

59,791

37,926

20,918

1,453,991

4,948

1,296

64,413

1,643,283

females

16,943

15,066

2,124

130,127

1,887

276

96,373

262,796

Source: Annual Bulletin of Labour Force Sample Survey 2021

ANNEXED NOTE

1. Technical Notes and Definitions

The data is taken from 2021 Labour Force Survey (yearly synthesis)

Sampling frame: Population Census 2015.

Sample size: 59,997 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: 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.

“Mixed” sector refers to establishments in which the government shares capital with another party, whether national, regional or foreign.

The “Government” sector may not include employees in the security and military sectors.

2. Institution which provides data

Planning and Statistics Authority (PSA)

(https://www.psa.gov.qa/en/Pages/default.aspx)

3. Data availability

The Statistics Authority conducted the first labour Force Sample Survey in 2001. After 2006, surveys were conducted on an annual basis.

After 2013, LFS surveys were conducted on a quarterly basis.

Labour Force Surveys (yearly and quarterly data) can be downloaded from PSA’s website, in PDF and Excel format:

https://www.psa.gov.qa/en/statistics1/pages/topicslisting.aspx?parent=Social&child=LaborForce

Last date of access: March 2023.

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.

Keywords: Qatar, Labour Market, Employment, National & Foreign Labour, National Labour, Foreign Labour, Domestic Workers