Qataris			Non-Qataris			Total
	Males	Females	Total	Males	Females	Total	Males	Females	Total
15 – 19	13,464	14,939	28,403	28,912	20,752	49,664	42,376	35,691	78,067
20 – 24	14,955	14,084	29,039	172,930	45,506	218,436	187,885	59,590	247,475
25 – 29	12,296	13,598	25,894	273,422	61,134	334,556	285,718	74,732	360,450
30 – 34	10,079	10,077	20,156	329,256	72,755	402,011	339,335	82,832	422,167
35 – 39	8,512	8,165	16,677	283,151	51,417	334,568	291,663	59,582	351,245
40 – 44	7,052	8,117	15,169	205,649	43,338	248,987	212,701	51,455	264,156
45 – 49	6,699	7,082	13,781	165,278	27,818	193,096	171,977	34,900	206,877
50 – 54	7,064	5,216	12,280	89,301	15,778	105,079	96,365	20,994	117,359
55 – 59	5,023	6,094	11,117	74,229	7,484	81,713	79,252	13,578	92,830
60 – 64	3,233	3,304	6,537	26,481	2,713	29,194	29,714	6,017	35,731
65 – 69	1,953	3,711	5,664	14,174	1,793	15,967	16,127	5,504	21,631
70 – 74	1,485	870	2,355	2,168	639	2,807	3,653	1,509	5,162
75 +	1,988	1,351	3,339	976	243	1,219	2,964	1,594	4,558
Total	93,803	96,608	190,411	1,665,927	351,370	2,017,297	1,759,730	447,978	2,207,708

Source: Annual Bulletin of Labor Force Sample survey 2015

ANNEXED NOTE

1. Technical Notes and Definitions

The data is taken from 2015 Labour Force Survey (yearly synthesis)
Sampling frame of LFS 2015: Population Census 2010.
Sample size: 44,756 persons, in 6,953 households: 1- Qatari households; 2- Non-Qatari regular (non-collective) households;
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.

2. Institution which provides data

Ministry of Development Planning and Statistics
(http://www.mdps.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. Quarterly publications of Labour Force Surveys’ data are also available since 2012.
2015′ and earlier Labour Force Surveys can be downloaded from MDPS’s website, in PDF and Excel format:
http://www.mdps.gov.qa/en/statistics1/pages/topicslisting.aspx?parent=Social&child=LaborForce
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: April 2017.

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