Qataris			Non-Qataris			Total
	Males	Females	Total	Males	Females	Total	Males	Females	Total
Legislators, Senior Officials and Managers	10,004	3,639	13,643	42,084	4,487	46,571	52,088	8,126	60,214
Professionals	18,108	22,357	40,465	188,466	97,628	286,094	206,574	119,985	326,559
Technicians and Associate Professionals	13,409	5,581	18,990	155,078	32,599	187,677	168,487	38,180	206,667
Clerks	23,696	16,214	39,910	110,887	40,732	151,619	134,583	56,946	191,529
Service Workers and Shop and Market Sales Workers	2,385	1,037	3,422	146,127	59,628	205,755	148,512	60,665	209,177
Skilled Agricultural and Fishery Workers	0	0	0	31,000	0	31,000	31,000	0	31,000
Craft and Related Trades Workers	2,603	0	2,603	536,599	826	537,425	539,202	826	540,028
Plant and Machine Operators And Assemblers	1,619	0	1,619	278,692	254	278,946	280,311	254	280,565
Elementary Occupations	1,005	439	1,444	202,788	88,945	291,733	203,793	89,384	293,177
Total	72,829	49,267	122,096	1,691,721	325,099	2,016,820	1,764,550	374,366	2,138,916

Source: Annual Bulletin of Labour Force Sample Survey 2023

ANNEXED NOTE

1. Technical Notes and Definitions

The data is taken from Labour Force Survey 2023 (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 does not cover short periods accommodation, i.e. hotels.

Employed population:
Persons aged 15 years an 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

Classification of occupations used: ISCO-88.

2. Institution which provides data

National Planning Council (NPC), formerly the Planning and Statistics Authority (PSA)
https://www.npc.qa/en/pages/default.aspx
https://www.npc.qa/ar/pages/default.aspx

3. Data availability 

Annual and quarterly bulletins of Labour Force Surveys reports can be downloaded from NPC’s website, in PDF and/or Excel formats:
https://www.npc.qa/en/statistics/pages/subjectdetails.aspx#

Last date of access: October 2025.
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, Employment, Female Employment, National Labour, Foreign Labour

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