Qatar

1.Series

Title:

Registered unemployment.

Starting year:

1965.

2.Agency making the initial registrations of unemployed persons

Name of the agency:

Labour Department.

Type of agency:

Public service under a national authority.

Name of the national authority:

Ministry of Civil Service and Housing.

Location of the local offices making the registrations:

In the Head Office of the Labour Department.

Type of services provided/administered by the agency:

  • Assisting job-seekers to find jobs;
  • Assisting employers to find workers;
  • Vocational guidance;
  • Job-related training.

    3.The following information is registered about a person:

  • Name;
  • Sex;
  • Address of usual residence;
  • Date of birth;
  • Citizenship;
  • Nationality/ethnic group;
  • Educational/vocational attainment, with an unspecified number of categories distinguished. Links to ISCED have been established;
  • Current/past activity status, with four categories distinguished;
  • Type of work (occupation) of past or present job with 10 groups distinguished. Links to ISCO-88 have been established;
  • Type of work (occupation) of job sought, with an unspecified number of groups distinguished. Links to ISCO-88 have been established;
  • Name and address of present or previous employer or work place;
  • Type of business (industry) of present/previous employer/workplace, with 136 groups distinguished. Links to ISIC, rev.3 have been established (group level);
  • Previous registrations with the agency/service;
  • Other: work experience.

    4.Criteria used for inclusion of a person in the registers (R) and/or the statistics of unemployed persons (S):

  • Being without work (R) and (S);
  • Seeking work (R) and (S);
  • Age (lower limit: 18 years; no upper limit) (R) and (S);
  • Being resident in the country (R) and (S);
  • Previously employed (R) and (S).

    5.Criteria used for exclusion of a person from the registers (R) and/or the statistics of unemployed persons (S):

  • Death (R);
  • Taking up residency abroad (R);
  • Commencement of a (new) job (R);
  • Commencement of military service (R);
  • Studying (R).

    6.Definition of unemployed persons used for the statistics

    Unemployed persons are those who were not employed, were desirous to work, were seeking work and did not find jobs during the period of reference (week of survey).

    7.Updating of the registers

    The registers are updated annually.

    8.Unemployment rates

    Statistics from the registers are not used to obtain unemployment rates.

    9.Type of statistics of unemployed persons produced

    Reference period:

    Week.

    Frequency of production:

    Yearly.

    Descriptive variables used:

  • Sex;
  • Age;
  • Educational level;
  • Occupation;
  • Industry;
  • Geographic characteristics;
  • Previous work experience;
  • Citizenship (nationals/non nationals).

    Form of publication:

    On paper, for limited audience.

    Agency responsible for publication:

    Ministry of Civil Service and Housing.

    10.Methodological information about the statistics

    Form of release:

    Not released, available for internal use only.

    Agency responsible:

    Ministry of Civil Service and Housing.

    11.Comparisons with unemployment statistics from other sources

    Comparisons have been made with unemployment statistics from the Labour Force Survey, another type of household survey and from the Population Census.

    Frequency of the comparisons:

    Regularly, when the statistics are published.

    Publication of the methodology/results of the comparisons:

    These have not been published.

    12.Major changes since the start of the statistics

    After the adoption by the Ministerial Council, in 1997, of a resolution which encouraged Qataris to work in the private sector the number of registered unemployed persons increased.