Qatar: Economically active population aged 15 and above by nationality (Qatari/ non-Qatari), sex and age group (2014)

	Qatari			Non-Qatari			Total
	Males	Females	Total	Males	Females	Total	Males	Females	Total
15 – 19	757	136	893	6,727	327	7,054	7,484	463	7,947
20 – 24	10,956	4,198	15,154	158,769	19,652	178,421	169,725	23,850	193,575
25 – 29	11,795	7,761	19,556	268,823	42,916	311,739	280,618	50,677	331,295
30 – 34	10,041	6,748	16,789	306,117	37,636	343,753	316,158	44,384	360,542
35 – 39	8,254	4,301	12,555	206,946	28,850	235,796	215,200	33,151	248,351
40 – 44	6,835	4,080	10,915	183,289	19,293	202,582	190,124	23,373	213,497
45 – 49	5,802	2,387	8,189	128,147	14,202	142,349	133,949	16,589	150,538
50 – 54	4,570	1,050	5,620	80,299	6,868	87,167	84,869	7,918	92,787
55 – 59	2,143	524	2,667	52,393	2,341	54,734	54,536	2,865	57,401
60 – 64	1,029	63	1,092	23,438	1,000	24,438	24,467	1,063	25,530
65 +	68	34	102	5,109	187	5,296	5,177	221	5,398
Total	62,250	31,282	93,532	1,420,057	173,272	1,593,329	1,482,307	204,554	1,686,861

Source: Annual Bulletin of Labor Force Sample survey 2014

ANNEXED NOTE

1. Technical Notes and Definitions

The data is taken from 2014 Labour Force Survey (yearly synthesis)
Sampling frame of LFS 2014: Population Census 2010.
Sample size: Around 7,000 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.

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

Outside the labour force (=economically inactive):
Full-time student: The person (15 years or older) enrolled in any educational institution as a full-time persistent student with purpose of attaining an academic degree, irrespective of whether the schooling hours are in the morning or evening. Any trainee enrolled in vocational training institutes is regarded as a full-time student.
Full-time housewife: The female (15 years or older) who is fully engaged in home management and family care, and does not practice any other work
Retired: The person who does not look for a job during the week preceding the survey and gets a fixed pension for work he/she had joined before
Disabled: The person (15 years or older) who is not capable of work due to illness, handicap or old age.
Others: Those able to work but not willing to, not enrolled in education, as well as any other cases encountered by the enumerator other than the above mentioned.

Figures do not include persons seeking work for the first time

2. Institution which provides data

Qatar Statistics Authority (QSA), Ministry of Development Planning and Statistics
(https://www.mdps.gov.qa/en/Pages/default.aspx for website in English; https://www.mdps.gov.qa/ar/pages/default.aspx for website in Arabic)

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.
Most Labour Force Surveys and publications related to the labour force are available on QSA’s website, in PDF format. LFS 2013 can be downloaded from:
https://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: September 2015.