Nationality		In the labour force				Outside the labour force						Grand Total
		Employed	Unemployed		Total in labour force	Housewife	Student	Disabled	Retired	Other	Total
			Seeking work for 1st time	Unpd. with previous employment
Qatari	Males	62,202	209	48	62,459	0	15,941	1,269	10,202	822	28,234	90,693
	Females	31,282	569	0	31,851	27,752	21,663	2,110	5,881	1,662	59,068	90,919
	Total	93,484	778	48	94,310	27,752	37,604	3,379	16,083	2,484	87,302	181,612
Non-Qatari	Males	1,419,940	659	117	1,420,716	0	27,615	1,999	0	2,963	32,577	1,453,293
	Females	173,247	1,635	25	174,907	87,582	25,922	1,317	0	4,530	119,351	294,258
	Total	1,593,187	2,294	142	1,595,623	87,582	53,537	3,316	0	7,493	151,928	1,747,551
Total	Males	1,482,142	868	165	1,483,175	0	43,556	3,268	10,202	3,785	60,811	1,543,986
	Females	204,529	2,204	25	206,758	115,334	47,585	3,427	5,881	6,192	178,419	385,177
	Total	1,686,671	3,072	190	1,689,933	115,334	91,141	6,695	16,083	9,977	239,230	1,929,163

Source: Annual Bulletin of Labor Force Sample survey 2014
ANNEXED NOTE

1. Technical Notes and Definitions

The data is taken from 2014 Labour Force Survey (yearly synthesis)
Sampling frame of LFS 2014: Population Census 2010.
Sample size: Around 7,000 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).
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.
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. 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).
The survey did not cover short periods accommodation, i.e. hotels.

Relation to labour force (for persons aged 15 and above)
In the labour force (= economically active).
1) Employed.
All persons aged 15 years an above, who during the week preceding the survey:
a) Perform a work for a wage, salary, profits or household gains, whether it was in cash or in kind.
b) Are temporarily not employed, however, they still have an official relation with their work
2) Unemployed.
All persons aged 15 years and over who were, during the week preceding the survey, without employment, willing to work and looking seriously for a job.
There is a distinction between two kinds of unemployed persons:
a) First time unemployed: They are the persons who never worked previously, and were during the week preceding the survey looking actively for work.
b) Unemployed who previously worked: They are the persons with a work experience, who during the week preceding the survey were actively looking for a job

Outside the labour force (=economically inactive):
Full-time student: The person (15 years or older) enrolled in any educational institution as a full-time persistent student with purpose of attaining an academic degree, irrespective of whether the schooling hours are in the morning or evening. Any trainee enrolled in vocational training institutes is regarded as a full-time student.
Full-time housewife: The female (15 years or older) who is fully engaged in home management and family care, and does not practice any other work
Retired: The person who does not look for a job during the week preceding the survey and gets a fixed pension for work he/she had joined before
Disabled: The person (15 years or older) who is not capable of work due to illness, handicap or old age.
Others: Those able to work but not willing to, not enrolled in education, as well as any other cases encountered by the enumerator other than the above mentioned.

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 labour Force Sample Survey in 2001. Starting from 2006, the execution of these surveys came to be on annual basis. Quarterly publications of Labour Force Surveys’ data are also available since 2012.
Most Labour Force Surveys and publications related to the labour force are available on QSA’s website, in PDF format. LFS 2013 can be downloaded from:
http://www.qsa.gov.qa/Eng/publication/annabs/2015/population-chapters/2_Labour_Force_2014.xlsx
See also Qatar Information Exchange for earlier Labour Force Surveys. QIX has also 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

Last date of access: September 2015.

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