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Qatar: Qatari economically active females (aged 15 and above) by occupation and sector of economic activity (2022)

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  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.

 

  1. Institution which provides data

 

Planning and Statistics Authority

https://www.psa.gov.qa/en/Pages/default.aspx

 

  1. 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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