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	32	16	15	0	0	0	0	0	0	63
Mining and quarrying	939	2,086	501	729	77	0	204	266	46	4,848
Manufacturing	345	456	125	503	0	0	16	123	15	1,583
Electricity, gas, steam and air conditioning supply	144	438	111	347	0	0	124	0	93	1,257
Water supply; sewerage, waste management and remediation activities	32	156	47	184	0	0	0	0	0	419
Construction	692	313	94	313	0	0	62	15	0	1,489
Wholesale and retail trade; repair of motor vehicles and motorcycles	327	78	156	215	185	0	0	15	0	976
Transportation and storage	246	329	560	234	16	0	31	15	45	1,476
Accommodation and food service activities	47	94	62	204	0	0	0	48	0	455
Information and communication	249	691	720	373	15	0	30	0	16	2,094
Financial and insurance activities	545	878	204	614	0	0	0	32	16	2,289
Real estate activities	359	79	77	31	0	0	0	0	0	546
Professional, scientific and technical activities	123	108	31	156	0	0	0	0	0	418
Administrative and support service activities	77	93	49	63	0	0	0	0	0	282
Public administration and defence; compulsory social security	4,130	9,161	10,163	17,335	2,092	0	2,029	898	495	46,303
Education	582	1,422	186	626	16	0	16	16	16	2,880
Human health and social work activities	660	929	190	1,054	16	0	15	124	311	3,299
Arts, entertainment and recreation	200	329	213	326	15	0	31	0	31	1,145
Other service activities	0	47	0	63	0	0	0	0	0	110
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	47	77	15	77	0	0	0	0	0	216
Total	9,776	17,780	13,519	23,447	2,432	0	2,558	1,552	1,084	72,148

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

 

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