Qatari			Non-Qatari			Total
	Males	Females	Total	Males	Females	Total	Males	Females	Total
Agriculture, forestry and fishing	24	0	24	23,099	0	23,099	23,123	0	23,123
Mining and quarrying	7,566	1,073	8,639	86,608	4,173	90,781	94,174	5,246	99,420
Manufacturing	1,344	132	1,476	131,320	1,775	133,095	132,664	1,907	134,571
Electricity, gas, steam and air conditioning supply	1,192	268	1,460	18,456	615	19,071	19,648	883	20,531
Water supply; sewerage, waste management and remediation activities	240	181	421	12,907	368	13,275	13,147	549	13,696
Construction	1,071	352	1,423	630,796	4,037	634,833	631,867	4,389	636,256
Wholesale and retail trade; repair of motor vehicles and motorcycles	1,229	354	1,583	188,970	7,026	195,996	190,199	7,380	197,579
Transportation and storage	1,414	382	1,796	44,270	8,790	53,060	45,684	9,172	54,856
Accommodation and food service activities	469	356	825	37,908	3,646	41,554	38,377	4,002	42,379
Information and communication	2,117	778	2,895	7,775	2,448	10,223	9,892	3,226	13,118
Financial and insurance activities	1,531	1,674	3,205	7,554	2,213	9,767	9,085	3,887	12,972
Real estate activities	759	176	935	10,360	455	10,815	11,119	631	11,750
Professional, scientific and technical activities	287	236	523	26,609	1,396	28,005	26,896	1,632	28,528
Administrative and support service activities	433	680	1,113	44,351	3,414	47,765	44,784	4,094	48,878
Public administration and defence; compulsory social security	38,441	11,288	49,729	44,014	4,304	48,318	82,455	15,592	98,047
Education	1,968	9,343	11,311	13,266	17,036	30,302	15,234	26,379	41,613
Human health and social work activities	1,448	3,578	5,026	11,836	11,393	23,229	13,284	14,971	28,255
Arts, entertainment and recreation	492	391	883	11,911	945	12,856	12,403	1,336	13,739
Other service activities	140	34	174	9,325	1,313	10,638	9,465	1,347	10,812
Activities of households as employers; undifferentiated goods- and services-producing activities of households for own use	0	0	0	56,855	97,202	154,057	56,855	97,202	154,057
Activities of extraterritorial organizations and bodies	85	6	91	1,867	723	2,590	1,952	729	2,681
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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