Qatar: Employed population (15 years and above) by nationality (Qatari/ non-Qatari), sex and occupation (2017)

	Qatari			Non-Qatari			Total
	Males	Females	Total	Males	Females	Total	Males	Females	Total
Legislators, Senior Officials and Managers	8,433	2,131	10,564	30,522	4,791	35,313	38,955	6,922	45,877
Professionals	13,970	15,333	29,303	115,297	41,294	156,591	129,267	56,627	185,894
Technicians and Associate Professionals	11,739	5,449	17,188	112,150	10,125	122,275	123,889	15,574	139,463
Clerks	16,558	10,266	26,824	59,772	23,339	83,111	76,330	33,605	109,935
Service Workers, Shops and Market Sales Workers	5,910	2,198	8,108	140,831	46,842	187,673	146,741	49,040	195,781
Skilled Agricultural and Fishery Workers	42	0	42	25,180	0	25,180	25,222	0	25,222
Craft and Related Trades Workers	4,523	0	4,523	663,594	447	664,041	668,117	447	668,564
Plant, Machine Operators and Assemblers	1,414	0	1,414	289,281	873	290,154	290,695	873	291,568
Elementary Occupations	3,444	434	3,878	272,732	109,779	382,511	276,176	110,213	386,389
Total	66,033	35,811	101,844	1,709,359	237,490	1,946,849	1,775,392	273,301	2,048,693

Source: Annual Bulletin of Labour Force Sample Survey 2017

ANNEXED NOTE

1. Technical Notes and Definitions

The data is taken from 2017 Labour Force Survey (yearly synthesis)
Sampling frame of LFS 2017: Population Census 2015.
Sample size: 60,278 persons, in 9,200 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).
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.
Population of reference: all Qatari and non-Qatari households present in Qatar on the night of survey, living in normal and collective households.
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).
The survey did not cover short periods accommodation, i.e. hotels.

Employed persons:
All persons aged 15 years and above, who during the week preceding the survey:
a) Perform a work for a wage, salary, profits or household gains, whether it was in cash or in kind.
b) Are temporarily not employed, however, they still have an official relation with their work

Figures do not include temporarily absent employees.

2. Institution which provides data

Ministry of Development Planning and Statistics
(http://www.mdps.gov.qa/en/pages/default.aspx)

3. Data availability

The Statistics Authority conducted the first labour Force Sample Survey in 2001. After 2006, surveys were conducted on an annual basis.
After 2013, LFS surveys were conducted on a quarterly basis.
Labour Force Surveys (yearly and quarterly data) can be downloaded from MDPS’s website, in PDF and Excel format:
http://www.mdps.gov.qa/en/statistics1/pages/topicslisting.aspx?parent=Social&child=LaborForce

Last date of access: January 2019.