Educational Attainment	QATARIS			NON-QATARIS			TOTAL POPULATION
	Males	Females	Total	Males	Females	Total	Males	Females	Total
Illiterate	35	24	59	3	0	3	38	24	62
Read and Write & Night School	86	81	167	41	4	45	127	85	212
Primary	227	121	348	82	5	87	309	126	435
Preparatory	208	250	458	73	22	95	281	272	553
Vocational	3	2	5	0	2	2	3	4	7
Secondary	240	971	1,211	109	185	294	349	1,156	1,505
Post. Secondary	5	44	49	0	60	60	5	104	109
University and Above	6	707	713	414	1,775	2,189	420	2,482	2,902
Other	1	0	1	2	0	2	3	0	3
Total	811	2,200	3,011	724	2,053	2,777	1,535	4,253	5,788

Source: census 2010, QSA

 

ANNEXED NOTE

 

1. Technical Notes and Definitions

 

Reference period for census 2010: the night of April 21st, 2010.

Implementation method: census is based on de jure method; i.e. registering people according to their usual place of residence at time of census.

Populations in transit or visiting Qatar as tourists, as well as residents of public housing or visitors staying in a household for less than two months after night of reference were excluded.

Populations away from usual residence in Qatar for reasons of duty, or on a visit abroad for less than two months, as well as individuals with no personal housing within Qatar staying with a household for more than two months, are counted in their usual/ present residence during census night.

Population of reference: all individuals (nationals and non-nationals) present within the State’s borders during time of reference, including in labour camps.

 

Unemployed population:

Persons aged 15 years and over who were, during the week preceding the survey, without employment, willing to work and looking seriously for a job.

There is a distinction between two kinds of unemployed persons:

a) First time unemployed: They are the persons who never worked previously, and were during the week preceding the survey looking actively for work.

b) Unemployed who previously worked: They are the persons with a work experience, who during the week preceding the survey were actively looking for a job

 

 

2. Institution which provides data

 

Qatar Statistics Authority (QSA)

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3. Data availability

 

None of Qatar censuses or other sources have ever disclosed figures of total population broken down by country of citizenship or even by nationality (Qatari/non-Qatari).

For 2010 data have been collected but remain withheld. The census only provides detailed data on population 15 years and above by nationality.

Released parts of census are available on the website of the QSA, in published form in PDF format.

https://www.mdps.gov.qa/en/statistics1/pages/topicslisting.aspx?parent=General&child=Census

Census 2010′ website:

https://www.mdps.gov.qa/en/statistics1/pages/topicslisting.aspx?parent=General&child=Census

2010′ census in Excel or PDF format individual tables:

http://www.qsa.gov.qa/QatarCensus/Census_Results.aspx

 

Date of access: June 2013.

Date of access: September 2013.

 

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