Qataris						Non-Qataris						Total
	Males		Females		Total		Males		Females		Total		Males		Females		Total
	Paid employment workers	Average Work Hours	Paid employment workers	Average Work Hours	Paid employment workers	Average Work Hours	Paid employment workers	Average Work Hours	Paid employment workers	Average Work Hours	Paid employment workers	Average Work Hours	Paid employment workers	Average Work Hours	Paid employment workers	Average Work Hours	Paid employment workers	Average Work Hours
Legislators, Senior Officials and Managers	8,025	41	2,002	39	10,027	41	28,269	47	4,359	42	32,628	46	36,294	44	6,361	40	42,655	43
Professionals	13,870	40	15,775	38	29,645	39	116,463	45	39,516	42	155,979	44	130,333	44	55,291	40	185,624	42
Technicians and Associate Professionals	11,250	41	5,326	38	16,576	40	111,123	47	10,119	44	121,242	47	122,373	45	15,445	40	137,818	44
Clerks	15,113	40	10,043	38	25,156	39	60,588	47	23,183	47	83,771	47	75,701	44	33,226	42	108,927	43
Service Workers and Shop and Market Sales Workers	5,813	40	2,086	38	7,899	40	139,720	51	46,679	53	186,399	52	145,533	49	48,765	52	194,298	51
Skilled Agricultural And Fishery Workers	0	0	0	0	0	0	25,250	53	0	0	25,250	53	25,250	53	0	0	25,250	53
Craft and Related Trades Workers	5,490	41	0	0	5,490	41	665,828	51	463	49	666,291	51	671,318	50	463	49	671,781	50
Plant and  Machine Operators and Assemblers	1,443	41	0	0	1,443	41	291,601	54	721	55	292,322	54	293,044	54	721	55	293,765	54
Elementary Occupations	3,487	40	616	38	4,103	40	276,530	50	108,523	58	385,053	55	280,017	50	109,139	57	389,156	54
Total	64,491	40	35,848	38	100,339	40	1,715,372	51	233,563	54	1,948,935	52	1,779,863	49	269,411	51	2,049,274	50

Source: Annual Bulletin of Labor Force Sample survey 2016
 
ANNEXED NOTE
 
1. Technical Notes and Definitions

The data is taken from 2016 Labour Force Survey (yearly synthesis)
Sampling frame of LFS 2016: Population Census 2010.
Sample size: 60,016 persons, in 9,199 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.

The present data concerns employed population in paid employment:
The persons who had work, whether they were working or temporarily not working, and performing their work in exchange for wage and salary, whether in cash or in kind.

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. Starting from 2006, the execution of these surveys came to be on annual basis, and on a quarterly basis since 2013.
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: May 2018.

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