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	67,610	56	42	67,708	0	18,824	1,080	10,773	1,036	31,713	99,421
	Females	38,428	126	0	38,554	29,054	25,918	1,960	6,111	2,199	65,242	103,796
	Total	106,038	182	42	106,262	29,054	44,742	3,040	16,884	3,235	96,955	203,217
Non-Qatari	Males	1,742,169	716	111	1,742,996	0	38,700	1,263	0	3,213	43,176	1,786,172
	Females	246,159	1,002	128	247,289	100,941	30,267	1,634	0	4,954	137,796	385,085
	Total	1,988,328	1,718	239	1,990,285	100,941	68,967	2,897	0	8,167	180,972	2,171,257
Total	Males	1,809,779	772	153	1,810,704	0	57,524	2,343	10,773	4,249	74,889	1,885,593
	Females	284,587	1,128	128	285,843	129,995	56,185	3,594	6,111	7,153	203,038	488,881
	Total	2,094,366	1,900	281	2,096,547	129,995	113,709	5,937	16,884	11,402	277,927	2,374,474

Source: Annual Bulletin of Labor Force Sample survey 2018
 
ANNEXED NOTE
 
1. Technical Notes and Definitions

The data is taken from 2018 Labour Force Survey (yearly synthesis)
Sampling frame of LFS 2018: Census of Population, Housing, and Establishments 2015.
Sample size: 60,238 persons, in 9,200 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: data was collected monthly.
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 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).
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 and 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

Planning and Statistics Authority
(https://www.psa.gov.qa/en/Pages/default.aspx)

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, and on a quarterly basis since 2013.
Labour Force Surveys (yearly and quarterly data) can be downloaded from MDPS’s website, in PDF and Excel format:
https://www.psa.gov.qa/en/statistics1/pages/topicslisting.aspx?parent=Social&child=LaborForce
Labour Force 2018:
https://www.psa.gov.qa/en/statistics/Statistical%20Releases/Social/LaborForce/2018/Annual_Bulletin_Labour_force_2018_AE.xls
Statistical analysis of LFS 2018:
https://www.psa.gov.qa/en/statistics/Statistical%20Releases/Social/LaborForce/2018/statistical_analysis_labor_force_2018_En.pdf

Last date of access: October 2019.

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