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	Qataris			Non-Qataris			Total
	Males	Females	Total	Males	Females	Total	Males	Females	Total
Agriculture, forestry and fishing	63	0	63	36,893	0	36,893	36,956	0	36,956
Mining and quarrying	4,848	1,785	6,633	25,097	2,425	27,522	29,945	4,210	34,155
Manufacturing	1,583	204	1,787	103,974	2,050	106,024	105,557	2,254	107,811
Electricity, gas, steam and air conditioning supply	1,257	1,116	2,373	10,559	1,602	12,161	11,816	2,718	14,534
Water supply; sewerage, waste management and remediation activities	419	173	592	3,814	140	3,954	4,233	313	4,546
Construction	1,489	233	1,722	661,163	6,889	668,052	662,652	7,122	669,774
Wholesale and retail trade; repair of motor vehicles and motorcycles	976	828	1,804	221,768	24,945	246,713	222,744	25,773	248,517
Transportation and storage	1,476	1,462	2,938	125,005	14,078	139,083	126,481	15,540	142,021
Accommodation and food service activities	455	1,114	1,569	66,716	21,677	88,393	67,171	22,791	89,962
Information and communication	2,094	1,450	3,544	17,185	3,803	20,988	19,279	5,253	24,532
Financial and insurance activities	2,289	2,583	4,872	16,706	4,523	21,229	18,995	7,106	26,101
Real estate activities	546	441	987	18,408	1,583	19,991	18,954	2,024	20,978
Professional, scientific and technical activities	418	171	589	26,419	5,988	32,407	26,837	6,159	32,996
Administrative and support service activities	282	943	1,225	160,941	28,609	189,550	161,223	29,552	190,775
Public administration and defence; compulsory social security	46,303	18,408	64,711	42,584	5,108	47,692	88,887	23,516	112,403
Education	2,880	11,342	14,222	29,446	30,435	59,881	32,326	41,777	74,103
Human health and social work activities	3,299	5,254	8,553	49,497	39,669	89,166	52,796	44,923	97,719
Arts, entertainment and recreation	1,145	1,035	2,180	8,372	2,442	10,814	9,517	3,477	12,994
Other service activities	110	47	157	9,321	4,182	13,503	9,431	4,229	13,660
Activities of households as employers; undifferentiated goods- and services-producing activities of households for own use	0	0	0	66,750	101,876	168,626	66,750	101,876	168,626
Activities of extraterritorial organizations and bodies	216	95	311	4,678	2,204	6,882	4,894	2,299	7,193
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: ISIC-Rev. 4.

 

The present data refers to the 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, Domestic Workers

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