Qatari			Non-Qatari			Total
	Males	Females	Total	Males	Females	Total	Males	Females	Total
Illiterate	246	46	292	32,481	2,546	35,027	32,727	2,592	35,319
Read & Write	1,966	358	2,324	200,858	19,741	220,599	202,824	20,099	222,923
Primary	3,671	368	4,039	245,039	37,835	282,874	248,710	38,203	286,913
Preparatory	9,220	844	10,064	400,474	34,224	434,698	409,694	35,068	444,762
Secondary	21,102	7,866	28,968	278,292	22,885	301,177	299,394	30,751	330,145
Pre.U. Diploma	2,477	609	3,086	59,236	4,621	63,857	61,713	5,230	66,943
University	20,528	19,692	40,220	183,260	47,113	230,373	203,788	66,805	270,593
Higher Diploma	742	538	1,280	7,763	582	8,345	8,505	1,120	9,625
M.A / M.Sc.	1,700	652	2,352	8,297	3,217	11,514	9,997	3,869	13,866
Ph.D.	598	309	907	4,357	508	4,865	4,955	817	5,772
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

Figures do not include persons seeking work for the first time

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.

2. Institution which provides data

Qatar Statistics Authority (QSA), Ministry of Development Planning and Statistics
(http://www.qsa.gov.qa/eng/index.htm for website in English; http://www.qsa.gov.qa/Ar/index.htm 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:
http://www.qsa.gov.qa/Eng/publication/annabs/2015/population-chapters/2_Labour_Force_2014.xlsx
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.

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