Qataris						Non-Qataris
	Males		Females		Total		Males		Females		Total
	Number of employees	Average work hours	Number of employees	Average work hours	Number of employees	Average work hours	Number of employees	Average work hours	Number of employees	Average work hours	Number of employees	Average work hours
Legislators, Senior Officials and Managers	9,341	38	3,481	37	12,822	38	40,601	46	4,481	43	45,082	45
Professionals	17,544	38	22,297	37	39,841	37	183,581	43	77,010	40	260,591	42
Technicians and Associate Professionals	13,443	38	5,500	37	18,943	38	150,380	46	29,922	40	180,302	45
Clerks	23,385	38	14,982	37	38,367	38	112,930	45	33,763	42	146,693	44
Service Workers and Shop and Market Sales Workers	2,244	38	841	37	3,085	38	145,279	49	59,703	45	204,982	48
Skilled Agricultural and Fishery Workers	0	0	0	0	0	0	31,017	50	0	0	31,017	50
Craft and Related Trades Workers	2,558	38	0	0	2,558	38	535,367	51	324	50	535,691	51
Plant and Machine Operators and Assemblers	1,520	39	0	0	1,520	39	277,037	50	494	51	277,531	50
Elementary Occupations	1,068	38	380	38	1,448	38	201,761	51	95,499	50	297,260	50
Total	71,103	38	47,481	37	118,584	38	1,677,953	49	301,196	47	1,979,149	48

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).

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.

The present data does not include employed workers temporarily absent from work.

 

Hours worked during survey week: The number of hours actually worked during the survey week, including normal scheduled hours and additional hours (overtime). “Average hours worked” is the average over all persons at work.

 

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: November 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, Female Employment, National & Foreign Labour, National Labour, Foreign Labour, Work Conditions

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