Qataris			Non-Qataris			Total
	Males	Females	Total	Males	Females	Total	Males	Females	Total
2012	68.1	34.6	51.3	97.7	58.4	90.7	95.7	52.4	86.5
2013	70.0	34.7	52.1	97.9	59.0	91.1	96.2	53.1	87.2
2014	68.9	35.0	51.9	97.8	59.4	91.3	96.1	53.7	87.6
2015	68.6	36.1	52.1	97.8	64.9	92.1	96.3	58.7	88.6
2016	68.5	36.9	52.4	98.0	65.6	92.5	96.4	59.4	89.1
2017	68.2	36.7	52.2	97.6	64.5	91.8	96.1	58.5	88.4
2018	68.1	37.1	52.2	97.6	64.2	91.7	96.0	58.5	88.3
2019	67.9	37.6	52.4	97.5	63.7	91.5	96.0	58.2	88.2
2020	66.4	37.0	51.5	97.5	64.3	91.5	95.8	58.4	88.0
2021	66.7	42.0	54.2	97.2	64.2	90.8	95.4	59.6	87.4
2022	66.1	42.9	54.3	97.1	66.4	90.8	95.3	61.7	87.4
2023	66.0	43.5	54.4	97.3	68.4	91.1	95.4	63.5	87.7

Source: Annual Bulletins of Labour Force Sample Surveys 2017 and 2023

ANNEXED NOTE

1. Technical Notes and Definitions

Censuses:

Sampling frame of LFS 2022 and 2023: 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 present data includes active population, i.e. employed and unemployed. It does not include persons seeking work for the first time

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

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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.

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