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	425	259	299	514	314	29,913	1,850	2,729	590	36,893
Mining and quarrying	609	6,583	4,643	891	447	0	7,654	3,928	342	25,097
Manufacturing	2,710	6,367	10,722	6,439	4,775	203	48,251	17,985	6,522	103,974
Electricity, gas, steam and air conditioning supply	75	2,817	5,577	215	716	0	906	70	183	10,559
Water supply; sewerage, waste management and remediation activities	140	112	322	140	0	0	1,012	1,822	266	3,814
Construction	10,388	41,957	38,455	32,255	9,433	463	413,557	66,010	48,645	661,163
Wholesale and retail trade; repair of motor vehicles and motorcycles	13,423	16,707	28,187	17,489	57,879	0	37,115	31,554	19,414	221,768
Transportation and storage	2,046	12,217	12,536	8,270	12,540	0	5,542	64,833	7,021	125,005
Accommodation and food service activities	2,427	2,219	4,656	4,605	36,725	0	2,422	9,752	3,910	66,716
Information and communication	841	8,024	4,899	1,285	312	0	872	625	327	17,185
Financial and insurance activities	1,673	4,744	4,117	3,998	292	0	248	711	923	16,706
Real estate activities	399	2,819	4,595	2,861	196	0	3,530	1,639	2,369	18,408
Professional, scientific and technical activities	2,120	10,565	3,734	3,353	1,632	0	1,711	2,190	1,114	26,419
Administrative and support service activities	1,950	5,649	8,791	6,216	8,422	215	15,594	13,913	100,191	160,941
Public administration and defence; compulsory social security	0	13,789	3,833	16,268	2,975	0	2,732	397	2,590	42,584
Education	608	16,206	4,068	1,765	1,429	0	481	3,385	1,504	29,446
Human health and social work activities	738	29,889	6,342	5,179	1,822	0	949	2,298	2,280	49,497
Arts, entertainment and recreation	394	1,682	2,576	690	880	531	0	609	1,010	8,372
Other service activities	70	1,571	2,702	491	1,227	0	224	495	2,541	9,321
Activities of households as employers; undifferentiated goods- and services-producing activities of households for own use	0	76	32	139	6,283	0	43	56,450	3,727	66,750
Activities of extraterritorial organizations and bodies	140	1,609	655	1,515	28	0	0	731	0	4,678
Total	41,176	185,861	151,741	114,578	148,327	31,325	544,693	282,126	205,469	1,705,296

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, National & Foreign Labour, National Labour, Foreign Labour, Highly-Skilled Labour, Low-Skilled Labour

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