Qataris			Non-Qataris			Total
	Males	Females	Total	Males	Females	Total	Males	Females	Total
Legislators, Senior Officials and Managers	9,776	3,497	13,273	41,176	4,551	45,727	50,952	8,048	59,000
Professionals	17,780	22,872	40,652	185,861	78,393	264,254	203,641	101,265	304,906
Technicians and Associate Professionals	13,519	5,673	19,192	151,741	30,025	181,766	165,260	35,698	200,958
Clerks	23,447	15,327	38,774	114,578	33,908	148,486	138,025	49,235	187,260
Service Workers and Shop and Market Sales Workers	2,432	919	3,351	148,327	60,194	208,521	150,759	61,113	211,872
Skilled Agricultural and Fishery Workers	0	0	0	31,325	0	31,325	31,325	0	31,325
Craft and Related Trades Workers	2,558	0	2,558	544,693	324	545,017	547,251	324	547,575
Plant and Machine Operators And Assemblers	1,552	0	1,552	282,126	494	282,620	283,678	494	284,172
Elementary Occupations	1,084	396	1,480	205,469	96,339	301,808	206,553	96,735	303,288
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 in 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.

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.

Classification used: ISCO-88

 

The present data includes active population, i.e. employed and unemployed. It does not include persons seeking work for the first time.

 

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: October 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, National & Foreign Labour, National Labour, Foreign Labour; Highly-Skilled Labour, Low-Skilled Labour

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