Saudi Arabia: Non – Saudi domestic workers by sex and main group of household occupations (Q2, 2018)

Main groups of household occupations	Male	Female	Total
Housekeeper	1,525	947	2,472
Drivers	1,357,228	0	1,357,228
Servants and house cleaners	250,350	698,798	949,148
Cookers and food provider	16,130	2,653	18,783
Houses, buildings and restrooms guards	34,137	0	34,137
Farmers houses	2,634	0	2,634
Home Tailors	740	1,253	1,993
Nurses and health professionals in homes	615	1,888	2,503
Private teachers and Nannies at homes	542	4,693	5,235
Not specified	32,688	14,282	46,970
Total	1,696,589	724,514	2,421,103

Source: Ministry of Labour and Social Development (MLSD)

ANNEXED NOTE

1. Technical Notes and Definitions

Since Q3 2016, instead of survey results, the Labour Force Surveys’ publications display administrative data: the records of Saudi and foreign labourers covered by social security schemes
(private and governmental sectors), and Ministry of Labour’s records of domestic labourers.
1. Labourers in the governmental sector are recorded by the Ministry of Civil Service.
2. The Social Insurance Law of the Kingdom of Saudi Arabia has become compulsorily applied to all Saudi workers in the private sector
of any other GCC Member State effective from 01/01/2006. Saudi and foreign workers in the sector have to be recorded by the General Organization for Social Insurance (GOSI).
3. Since 2017, the Ministry of Labour and Social Development records all labourers in the domestic sector.

Therefore, the present data do not include employed persons non-registered in the records of MLSD

2. Institution which provides data

General Authority for Statistics (GAStat) https://www.stats.gov.sa/en

3. Data availability

Data on foreign labourers employed in the domestic sector have been published quarterly since Q2, 2016 in GAStat’s Labour Force Surveys.
https://www.stats.gov.sa/en/813
The present data is taken from Labour Force Survey 2018 (Q2) (Excel format).

Last date of access: October 2018.