2005			2006			2007
	Males	Females	Total	Males	Females	Total	Males	Females	Total
Agriculture, Hunting and Forestry	8,471	131	8,602	9,844	158	10,002	12,791	247	13,038
Fishing	10,102	14	10,116	10,430	10	10,440	9,751	13	9,764
Mining and Quarrying	15,088	528	15,616	15,551	617	16,168	16,380	743	17,123
Manufacturing	278,182	10,673	288,855	315,841	10,355	326,196	365,683	11,038	376,721
Electricity, Gas and Water Supply	845	16	861	1,025	28	1,053	2,371	67	2,438
Construction	909,932	6,377	916,309	1,081,870	8,643	1,090,513	1,361,804	12,762	1,374,566
Wholesale and Retail Trade; Repair of Motor Vehicles, Motorcycles and Personal and Household Goods	480,001	36,060	516,061	521,298	42,361	563,659	600,702	53,369	654,071
Hotels and Restaurants	82,080	7,696	89,776	85,419	8,172	93,591	96,402	9,156	105,558
Transport, Storage and Communications	149,176	5,551	154,727	164,005	6,275	170,280	188,678	7,633	196,311
Financial Intermediation	18,263	4,669	22,932	20,985	5,854	26,839	23,582	7,620	31,202
Real Estate, Renting and Business Activities	111,865	15,190	127,055	135,906	19,088	154,994	187,368	26,956	214,324
Education	16,824	12,938	29,762	18,041	15,302	33,343	18,956	21,435	40,391
Health and Social Work	7,972	6,961	14,933	8,147	7,635	15,782	9,771	10,383	20,154
Other Community, Social and Personal Service Activities	38,858	7,913	46,771	44,911	9,578	54,489	45,922	11,439	57,361
Total	2,127,659	114,717	2,242,376	2,433,263	134,086	2,567,349	2,940,161	172,861	3,113,022

Source: Statistical Yearbook 2008, Ministry of Labour, UAE.

ANNEXED NOTE

1. Characteristics of data, definitions

Classification used is ISIC, Rev. 3. and the population taken into account is the private sector employees.
The categories “Public Administration and Defence; Compulsory Social Security” and “Private Households with Employed Persons” (domestic workers) are not included.

2. Institution which provides data

Ministry of Labour, UAE

3. Data availability

The data has been taken from Arab Labour Organisation’s Statistical Yearbook 2010, Chapter “Migration”
http://www.alolabor.org/final/index.php?option=com_jdownloads&Itemid=110&view=view.download&catid=31&cid=95&lang=en
http://www.alolabor.org/final/index.php?option=com_jdownloads&Itemid=110&view=viewcategory&catid=31&lang=ar

Last date of access: March 3, 2015.

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