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Qatar: non-Qatari economically active females (aged 15 and above) by occupation and sector of economic activity (2022)

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  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.

 

  1. Institution which provides data

 

Planning and Statistics Authority

https://www.psa.gov.qa/en/Pages/default.aspx

 

  1. 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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