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11 Sept 2007

Labor Force Survey 2007

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Specialists in Qatar Statistics Authority (QSA) started preparatory works for the Labor Force Sample Survey 2007, paving the way for the execution of the filed works in October 2007 , and in association with the concerned State agencies in identifying their requirements from the survey.

This survey shall fulfill the requirements of QSA, concerned agencies, decision makers, researchers and other data users. The survey will provide an integrated base of data useful for planning harmonizing policies between education outputs and labor market through the projects of Labor Market Strategy and the Permanent Population Committee.

The survey aims at estimating the size of the labor force in terms of:

Distribution of the labor force according to the different characteristics (age, sex, educational status, marital status, employment status, economic activity, occupation, sector …etc)

measuring the size of employment and unemployment as well as recognizing characteristics and attitudes of the unemployed, inasmuch as to achieve the following objectives:

	Observing changes in employment and unemployment rates especially among Qatari citizens influenced by factors of supply and demand in the labor market.
	Studying social and economic characteristics of the labor force, focusing on unemployed specially these never worked before.
	Drawing policies and setting up programs essential for employment to encounter growing unemployment phenomenon.
	Verifying and checking up the success of any policies and programs currently implemented to cure unemployment phenomenon.
	Verifying and checking the validity of certain wildly spread suppositions regarding reasons behind unemployment phenomenon e.g. youth refrainment with respect to certain jobs or working in the private sector …etc.
	Reviewing social and economical conditions of the households specially these of the unemployed to identify the influence of these conditions (number of households members, number of employed and the unemployed among them …etc.)

Studying the relation between occupation and educational specialization.

To look into the reasons for the refrainment of young people to work in the private sector and to take handicraft occupations.

building up to date data base and the provide all information and statistics needed for carrying out research, studies, comparisons and monitoring indicators at the level of the countries of the Gulf Cooperation Council as well as the international level.

According to the setup plan, the survey will be executed according to the following stages:- click here

Labor Force Sample Survey 2006: click here.