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	1,096	3,124	782	1,038	77	0	204	266	46	6,633
Manufacturing	360	583	140	550	0	0	16	123	15	1,787
Electricity, gas, steam and air conditioning supply	250	766	517	623	0	0	124	0	93	2,373
Water supply; sewerage, waste management and remediation activities	32	203	47	310	0	0	0	0	0	592
Construction	768	422	110	345	0	0	62	15	0	1,722
Wholesale and retail trade; repair of motor vehicles and motorcycles	374	343	266	621	185	0	0	15	0	1,804
Transportation and storage	466	871	856	593	46	0	31	15	60	2,938
Accommodation and food service activities	174	378	331	608	30	0	0	48	0	1,569
Information and communication	312	1,360	1,048	763	15	0	30	0	16	3,544
Financial and insurance activities	839	1,949	312	1,724	0	0	0	32	16	4,872
Real estate activities	453	252	108	174	0	0	0	0	0	987
Professional, scientific and technical activities	154	186	63	186	0	0	0	0	0	589
Administrative and support service activities	188	405	285	347	0	0	0	0	0	1,225
Public administration and defence; compulsory social security	5,070	17,227	12,216	24,468	2,308	0	2,029	898	495	64,711
Education	1,217	8,285	1,167	2,825	568	0	16	16	128	14,222
Human health and social work activities	1,146	3,143	638	2,800	107	0	15	124	580	8,553
Arts, entertainment and recreation	279	968	276	580	15	0	31	0	31	2,180
Other service activities	16	78	0	63	0	0	0	0	0	157
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	93	15	156	0	0	0	0	0	311
Total	13,273	40,652	19,192	38,774	3,351	0	2,558	1,552	1,480	120,832

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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