Qataris			Non-Qataris			Total
	Males	Females	Total	Males	Females	Total	Males	Females	Total
Illiterate	387	1,722	2,109	242	844	1,086	629	2,566	3,195
Read & write	2,021	4,889	6,910	729	14,636	15,365	2,750	19,525	22,275
Primary	2,702	6,165	8,867	8,381	17,838	26,219	11,083	24,003	35,086
Preparatory	14,483	18,826	33,309	17,880	25,130	43,010	32,363	43,956	76,319
Secondary	12,406	16,664	29,070	18,379	40,647	59,026	30,785	57,311	88,096
Diploma	47	551	598	585	6,301	6,886	632	6,852	7,484
University and above	4,958	16,257	21,215	3,899	49,090	52,989	8,857	65,347	74,204
Total	37,004	65,074	102,078	50,095	154,486	204,581	87,099	219,560	306,659

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.

 

Economically inactive population (outside the labour force)

Individuals aged 15 years and above who are not included in the labour force (as employed or unemployed) and do not supply labour needed to produce economic goods or services, as they are not working, not looking for work, unable to work or not willing to join the labour force during the period of reference.

Inactives can be students, homemakers, pensioners who are unable to work, individuals who are unable to work, who do not want or seek work, and others who are not working for other reasons.

 

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: December 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, Living Conditions, Family Reunification, Education, Foreign & National Populations

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