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UAE: Percentage distribution of employed population (aged 15 and above) by sex and sector of economic activity (2021)

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  Emiratis Non-Emiratis Total
  Males Females Total Males Females Total Males Females Total
Federal Government NA NA NA NA NA NA 3.9 3.9 3.9
Local government NA NA NA NA NA NA 5.6 8.5 6.3
Private Sector NA NA NA NA NA NA 79.8 45.0 71.6
Shared NA NA NA NA NA NA 4.8 5.0 4.8
Foreign NA NA NA NA NA NA 1.0 1.0 1.0
Diplomatic Authority NA NA NA NA NA NA 0.0 0.1 0.1
Non-profit Organizations NA NA NA NA NA NA 0.2 0.2 0.2
Without Establishment NA NA NA NA NA NA 0.7 0.4 0.6
Private Households NA NA NA NA NA NA 4.1 35.9 11.6
Other NA NA NA NA NA NA 0.0 0.0 0.0
Not Stated NA NA NA NA NA NA 0.0 0.0 0.0
Total NA NA NA NA NA NA 100 100 100

Source: Federal Competitiveness and Statistitics Center (FCSC)

ANNEXED NOTE

1. Characteristics of data, definitions and population counting operations in the UAE

Since 2016, the UAE Federal Competitiveness and Statistitics Center (FCSC)
resumed the implementation of Labour Force Surveys. The last one was conducted in 2009.
Labour Force Surveys are based on field surveys.
No metadata and methodological indications for the current Labour Force Surveys are available.
https://fcsa.gov.ae/en-us/Pages/Statistics/qualitygate.aspx#?tid=1&sid=1

Since 2020, Labour Force Surveys’ publications stopped including data disaggregated by nationality (national/non-national). 

2. Institution which provides data 

Federal Competitiveness and Statistitics Center (FCSC)
https://fcsa.gov.ae/en-us/

3. Data availability 

The results of 2008, 2009, 2016 to 2023 Labour Force Surveys are available (in Excel format) in FCSC’s website, section “Statistics by Subject”; “Demographis and Social Statistics”; “Labor Force”
https://fcsc.gov.ae/en-us/Pages/Statistics/Statistics-by-Subject.aspx?_gl=1*yblmar*_ga*MTUxNDM3MDY4MS4xNzM2OTU4MzA1*_ga_ZHMQE6JK4Z*MTczNjk2NTg3MC4zLjEuMTczNjk2NjIyOS4wLjAuMA..#report-tvDetails
Raw datasets for the period 2019 to the last LFS are also available in the UAE Stat portal
https://uaestat.fcsc.gov.ae/en

Last date of access: December 2024.

Keywords: United Arab Emirates, Labour Market, Employment, Female Employment, National & Foreign Labour

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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.

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