Qatar: Population 15 years and above by nationality (Qatari/ non-Qatari), sex and 10-years age group (2013)

	QATARIS			NON-QATARIS			TOTAL
	Males	Females	Total	Males	Females	Total	Males	Females	Total
15 – 24	28,943	28,505	57,448	217,747	51,387	269,134	246,690	79,892	326,582
25 – 34	23,526	21,191	44,717	469,082	106,416	575,498	492,608	127,607	620,215
35 – 44	14,773	15,033	29,806	358,276	71,727	430,003	373,049	86,760	459,809
45 – 54	10,834	13,082	23,916	187,066	27,045	214,111	197,900	40,127	238,027
55 +	11,518	11,801	23,319	81,430	8,849	90,279	92,948	20,650	113,598
Total	89,594	89,612	179,206	1,313,601	265,424	1,579,025	1,403,195	355,036	1,758,231

Source: Quarterly Labour Force Survey, Q4 2013

ANNEXED NOTE

1. Technical Notes and Definitions

Sampling frame of Quarterly LFS 2013: Population Census 2010.

Sample size for the whole year: about 7000 households from: 1- Qatari households; 2- Non-Qatari regular (non-collective) households; 3- Non-Qatari small collective households (2 – 6 persons); 4- Non-Qatari large collective households (7 persons or more).

One fourth of the sample was covered every quarter; each month one third of the quarterly data was collected.

Reference period for data collection: October-December 2013.

Population of reference: all Qatari and non-Qatari households present in Qatar on the night of survey, living in normal and collective households.

The collective households are a group of persons not related to each other and sharing living conditions in a residential unit, I.e. labor 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).

The survey did not cover short periods accommodation, i.e. hotels.

2. Institution which provides data

Qatar Statistics Authority (QSA), Ministry of Development Planning and Statistics

http://www.qsa.gov.qa/eng/index.htm for website in English; http://www.qsa.gov.qa/Ar/index.htm for website in Arabic)

3. Data availability

The Statistics Authority conducted the first labor Force Sample Survey in 2001. Starting from 2006, the execution of these surveys came to be on annual basis.

Most Labour Force Surveys and publications related to the labour force are available on QSA’s website, in PDF format and can be downloaded from:

https://www.mdps.gov.qa/en/statistics1/pages/topicslisting.aspx?parent=Social&child=LaborForce

Quarterly Labour Force survey for Q4 2013 is available in Excel format:

http://www.qsa.gov.qa/eng/publication/annabs/2013/Quarterly%20LFS%20web%20report4ndqtr2013-Eng.xls

See also Qatar Information Exchange, an interactive data base compiling data on the labour force taken from available surveys:

http://www.qix.gov.qa/portal/page/portal/qix/subject_area/Statistics?subject_area=183

Date of access: April 2014.