Qataris			Non-Qataris			Total
	Males	Females	Total	Males	Females	Total	Males	Females	Total
Employer	2,800	298	3,098	3,694	378	4,072	6,494	676	7,170
Own Account Worker	91	0	91	1,124	0	1,124	1,215	0	1,215
Employee	70,701	50,400	121,101	1,720,986	329,461	2,050,447	1,791,687	379,861	2,171,548
Total	73,592	50,698	124,290	1,725,804	329,839	2,055,643	1,799,396	380,537	2,179,933

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.

The present data includes active population, i.e. employed and unemployed. It does not include persons seeking work for the first time

Classification used: The International Classification of Status in Employment (ICSE)
a)     Employers are those workers who, working on their own account or with one or a few partners, hold the type of job defined as a “self-employment” and have engaged one or more persons to work for them in their business as “employees”.
b)    Own-account workers are those workers who, working on their own account or with one or more partners, hold the type of job defined as a “self-employment”, and have not engaged on a continuous basis any “employees”.
c)     Employees are all those workers who hold the type of job defined as “paid employment”.

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.

Keywords: Qatar, Employment, Female Employment, National Labour, Foreign Labour

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