Qatar: Economically active population aged 15 and above by nationality (Qatari/ non-Qatari), sex and sector of economic activity (2015)

	Qatari			Non-Qatari			Total
	Males	Females	Total	Males	Females	Total	Males	Females	Total
Agriculture, forestry and fishing	48	0	48	23,958	0	23,958	24,006	0	24,006
Mining and quarrying	7,737	1,790	9,527	87,123	5,234	92,357	94,860	7,024	101,884
Manufacturing	1,393	437	1,830	131,757	1,860	133,617	133,150	2,297	135,447
Electricity, gas, steam and air conditioning supply	1,261	710	1,971	17,572	229	17,801	18,833	939	19,772
Water supply; sewerage, waste management and remediation activities	222	229	451	12,124	561	12,685	12,346	790	13,136
Construction	1,495	139	1,634	779,033	4,408	783,441	780,528	4,547	785,075
Wholesale and retail trade; repair of motor vehicles and motorcycles	1,302	1,077	2,379	226,250	24,657	250,907	227,552	25,734	253,286
Transportation and storage	1,485	432	1,917	54,189	10,351	64,540	55,674	10,783	66,457
Accommodation and food service activities	482	469	951	37,366	12,711	50,077	37,848	13,180	51,028
Information and communication	2,224	803	3,027	8,096	2,415	10,511	10,320	3,218	13,538
Financial and insurance activities	1,577	1,681	3,258	7,739	4,546	12,285	9,316	6,227	15,543
Real estate activities	763	193	956	10,601	782	11,383	11,364	975	12,339
Professional, scientific and technical activities	222	230	452	26,747	1,647	28,394	26,969	1,877	28,846
Administrative and support service activities	513	687	1,200	51,107	3,490	54,597	51,620	4,177	55,797
Public administration and defence; compulsory social security	38,925	11,626	50,551	44,783	5,572	50,355	83,708	17,198	100,906
Education	2,116	9,660	11,776	13,891	25,292	39,183	16,007	34,952	50,959
Human health and social work activities	1,506	3,633	5,139	12,842	12,206	25,048	14,348	15,839	30,187
Arts, entertainment and recreation	547	419	966	12,514	1,079	13,593	13,061	1,498	14,559
Other service activities	228	100	328	10,686	3,021	13,707	10,914	3,121	14,035
Activities of households as employers; undifferentiated goods- and services-producing activities of households for own use	0	0	0	57,199	105,177	162,376	57,199	105,177	162,376
Activities of extraterritorial organizations and bodies	95	7	102	3,141	1,209	4,350	3,236	1,216	4,452
Total	64,141	34,322	98,463	1,628,718	226,447	1,855,165	1,692,859	260,769	1,953,628

Source: Annual Bulletin of Labor Force Sample survey 2015

ANNEXED NOTE

1. Technical Notes and Definitions

The data is taken from 2015 Labour Force Survey (yearly synthesis)
Sampling frame of LFS 2015: Population Census 2010.

Sample size: 44,756 persons, in 6,953 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 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

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

Classification of economic activities: ISIC Rev. 4.

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.
Quarterly publications of Labour Force Surveys’ data are also available since 2012.
2015′ and earlier Labour Force Surveys 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
See also Qatar Information Exchange for earlier Labour Force Surveys. QIX has also an interactive data base compiling data on the labour force taken from available surveys:
http://www.qix.gov.qa/portal/page/portal/qix/subject_area/Statistics?subject_area=183

Last date of access: January 2017.