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

  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.

 

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