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
Illiterate	females	0	0	0	0	0	0	98	98
males	411	668	483	151,253	0	0	10,591	163,406
males	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
Primary	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
Preparatory	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
Secondary	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
Pre.U. Diploma	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
University and above	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
Total	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