Qataris			Non-Qataris			Total
	Males	Females	Total	Males	Females	Total	Males	Females	Total
Illiterate	0	0	0	14,209	31	14,240	14,209	31	14,240
Read & Write	217	124	341	162,599	15,279	177,878	162,816	15,403	178,219
Literacy	0	0	0	340	31	371	340	31	371
Primary	2,734	633	3,367	343,236	21,141	364,377	345,970	21,774	367,744
Preparatory	6,201	1,740	7,941	445,391	43,277	488,668	451,592	45,017	496,609
Vocational Training	0	0	0	4,911	129	5,040	4,911	129	5,040
Secondary	27,549	15,480	43,029	253,531	66,183	319,714	281,080	81,663	362,743
Diploma	1,142	139	1,281	81,093	13,619	94,712	82,235	13,758	95,993
University	29,053	27,281	56,334	371,737	123,725	495,462	400,790	151,006	551,796
Higher Diploma	1,463	891	2,354	4,367	5,933	10,300	5,830	6,824	12,654
M.A / M.Sc.	2,459	1,628	4,087	16,062	13,047	29,109	18,521	14,675	33,196
Ph.D.	1,330	768	2,098	7,820	1,833	9,653	9,150	2,601	11,751
Total	72,148	48,684	120,832	1,705,296	304,228	2,009,524	1,777,444	352,912	2,130,356

Source: Annual Bulletin of Labour Force Sample Survey 2022

 

ANNEXED NOTE

 

1. Technical Notes and Definitions

 

The data is taken from Labour Force Survey 2022 (yearly synthesis)

Sampling frame: Population Census 2020.

Sample size: 65,253 persons, in 10,560 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).

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).

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.

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.

 

Education level: highest level completed.

Classification used: the Directory of Standard Classification of Education, based on UNESCO’s International Standard Classification of Education (ISCED).

Information was coded at the five-digit level and tabulated at the broad level only.

 

2. Institution which provides data

 

Planning and Statistics Authority

https://www.psa.gov.qa/en/Pages/default.aspx

 

3. Data availability

 

Labour Force Surveys (yearly and quarterly data) can be downloaded from PSA’s website, in PDF and Excel format:

https://www.psa.gov.qa/en/statistics1/pages/topicslisting.aspx?parent=Social&child=LaborForce

 

Last date of access: November 2023.

 

GLMM and GRC cannot guarantee that the link to access the source will not change; that the information will not be removed from the website it was obtained from; that no geo-blockages will be imposed; or that the information will not be available for any another reason.

 

Keywords: Qatar, Labour Market, Employment, Female Employment, National & Foreign Labour, National Labour, Foreign Labour, Education

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