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

	Qatari			Non-Qatari			Total
	Males	Females	Total	Males	Females	Total	Males	Females	Total
Legislators, Senior Officials And Managers	7,511	1,826	9,337	31,384	4,409	35,793	38,895	6,235	45,130
Professionals	13,039	15,548	28,587	102,320	28,328	130,648	115,359	43,876	159,235
Technicians And Associate Professionals	10,462	4,141	14,603	70,911	10,541	81,452	81,373	14,682	96,055
Clerks	14,673	7,957	22,630	53,028	10,487	63,515	67,701	18,444	86,145
Service Workers And Shop And Market Sales Workers	4,934	1,468	6,402	136,572	24,768	161,340	141,506	26,236	167,742
Skilled Agricultural And Fishery Workers	0	0	0	23,972	0	23,972	23,972	0	23,972
Craft And Related Trades Workers	5,417	0	5,417	553,593	472	554,065	559,010	472	559,482
Plant And Machine Operators And Assemblers	1,121	0	1,121	199,876	1,033	200,909	200,997	1,033	202,030
Elementary Occupations	5,093	342	5,435	248,401	93,234	341,635	253,494	93,576	347,070
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
(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.