Qatar: Economically active population (aged 15 years and above) by nationality (Qatari/non-Qatari), sex and occupation group (2022)

  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.

 

  1. Institution which provides data

 

Planning and Statistics Authority

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

 

  1. 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