Qatar: Qatari economically active population (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 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.

 

  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