Legislators, Senior Officials and Managers	Professionals	Technicians and Associate Professionals	Clerks	Service Workers and Shop and Market Sales Workers	Skilled Agricultural and Fishery Workers	Craft and Related Trades Workers	Plant and Machine Operators and Assemblers	Elementary Occupations	Total
Agriculture, forestry and fishing	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0
Mining and quarrying	70	1,064	770	521	0	0	0	0	0	2,425
Manufacturing	150	730	98	337	665	0	70	0	0	2,050
Electricity, gas, steam and air conditioning supply	0	817	0	785	0	0	0	0	0	1,602
Water supply; sewerage, waste management and remediation activities	0	0	0	140	0	0	0	0	0	140
Construction	70	2,356	1,816	1,437	1,135	0	0	0	75	6,889
Wholesale and retail trade; repair of motor vehicles and motorcycles	430	1,346	622	3,423	19,124	0	0	0	0	24,945
Transportation and storage	248	1,596	1,067	3,895	6,754	0	0	56	462	14,078
Accommodation and food service activities	795	225	650	4,051	14,618	0	56	0	1,282	21,677
Information and communication	70	1,939	725	494	70	0	0	0	505	3,803
Financial and insurance activities	285	2,102	1,096	970	0	0	0	0	70	4,523
Real estate activities	70	401	327	570	145	0	0	0	70	1,583
Professional, scientific and technical activities	453	3,593	600	1,284	28	0	30	0	0	5,988
Administrative and support service activities	635	5,147	10,372	7,881	70	0	28	0	4,476	28,609
Public administration and defence; compulsory social security	0	2,280	720	1,663	445	0	0	0	0	5,108
Education	715	23,277	2,581	1,670	2,164	0	28	0	0	30,435
Human health and social work activities	210	28,939	6,836	3,038	416	0	0	0	230	39,669
Arts, entertainment and recreation	70	365	593	1,199	28	0	112	0	75	2,442
Other service activities	70	58	75	30	3,949	0	0	0	0	4,182
Activities of households as employers; undifferentiated goods- and services-producing activities of households for own use	0	878	883	0	10,583	0	0	438	89,094	101,876
Activities of extraterritorial organizations and bodies	210	1,280	194	520	0	0	0	0	0	2,204
Total	4,551	78,393	30,025	33,908	60,194	0	324	494	96,339	304,228

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 includes active population, i.e. employed and unemployed. It does not include persons seeking work for the first time

Classifications used: ISCO-88; ISIC Rev. 4.

 

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, Highly-Skilled Labour, Low-Skilled Labour

 

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