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
Mining and quarrying	157	1,038	281	309	0	0	0	0	0	1,785
Manufacturing	15	127	15	47	0	0	0	0	0	204
Electricity, gas, steam and air conditioning supply	106	328	406	276	0	0	0	0	0	1,116
Water supply; sewerage, waste management and remediation activities	0	47	0	126	0	0	0	0	0	173
Construction	76	109	16	32	0	0	0	0	0	233
Wholesale and retail trade; repair of motor vehicles and motorcycles	47	265	110	406	0	0	0	0	0	828
Transportation and storage	220	542	296	359	30	0	0	0	15	1,462
Accommodation and food service activities	127	284	269	404	30	0	0	0	0	1,114
Information and communication	63	669	328	390	0	0	0	0	0	1,450
Financial and insurance activities	294	1,071	108	1,110	0	0	0	0	0	2,583
Real estate activities	94	173	31	143	0	0	0	0	0	441
Professional, scientific and technical activities	31	78	32	30	0	0	0	0	0	171
Administrative and support service activities	111	312	236	284	0	0	0	0	0	943
Public administration and defence; compulsory social security	940	8,066	2,053	7,133	216	0	0	0	0	18,408
Education	635	6,863	981	2,199	552	0	0	0	112	11,342
Human health and social work activities	486	2,214	448	1,746	91	0	0	0	269	5,254
Arts, entertainment and recreation	79	639	63	254	0	0	0	0	0	1,035
Other service activities	16	31	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	47
Activities of households as employers; undifferentiated goods- and services-producing activities of households for own use	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0
Activities of extraterritorial organizations and bodies	0	16	0	79	0	0	0	0	0	95
Total	3,497	22,872	5,673	15,327	919	0	0	0	396	48,684

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

 

 

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