Qatar: Economically active population aged 15 and above by nationality (Qatari/ non-Qatari), sex and occupation (2016)

	Qatari			Non-Qatari			Total
	Males	Females	Total	Males	Females	Total	Males	Females	Total
Legislators, Senior Officials And Managers	8,081	2,030	10,111	28,269	4,373	32,642	36,350	6,403	42,753
Professionals	13,968	16,055	30,023	116,873	40,220	157,093	130,841	56,275	187,116
Technicians And Associate Professionals	11,404	5,340	16,744	111,169	10,193	121,362	122,573	15,533	138,106
Clerks	15,211	10,211	25,422	60,648	23,243	83,891	75,859	33,454	109,313
Service Workers And Shop And Market Sales Workers	5,869	2,142	8,011	139,776	46,693	186,469	145,645	48,835	194,480
Skilled Agricultural And Fishery Workers	0	0	0	25,250	0	25,250	25,250	0	25,250
Craft And Related Trades Workers	5,546	0	5,546	666,320	463	666,783	671,866	463	672,329
Plant And Machine Operators And Assemblers	1,457	0	1,457	291,727	721	292,448	293,184	721	293,905
Elementary Occupations	3,515	616	4,131	276,627	108,677	385,304	280,142	109,293	389,435
Total	65,051	36,394	101,445	1,716,659	234,583	1,951,242	1,781,710	270,977	2,052,687

Source: Annual Bulletin of Labor Force Sample survey 2016

ANNEXED NOTE

1. Technical Notes and Definitions

The data is taken from 2016 Labour Force Survey (yearly synthesis)
Sampling frame of LFS 2016: Population Census 2010.
Sample size: 60,016 persons, in 9,199 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 and 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

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, and on a quarterly basis since 2013.
Labour Force Surveys (yearly and quarterly data) 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

Last date of access: May 2018.