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Qatari employment
Jul. 25th, 2005 02:20 pmThe Gulf Times published a rather confusing article today called Over 50,000 Qataris economically active, which reports on a census of "economically active" Qataris conducted by the Planning Council in March 2004.
Collating their (somewhat conflicting) data with the CIA World Factbook (always a dodgy undertaking) and adding a dollop of specious statistical handwaving, here's what I found:
1 The population in 2004 was around 841,098 (the World Factbook's reported 2005 population minus last year's growth withan annual growth rate of 1.0261). Approximately 20% of these are citizens, 80% non-citizens.
2 These are very approximate. The World Factbook says 72.9% of the population is 15-64, but it seems exceedingly unlikely that the Qatari and non-Qatari groups have equivalent age structures.
3 I'm defining employment as the percentage of people age 15-64 who are "economically active." Obviously this is not equivalent to Western measures of employment, which measure only the participation of people who want to work.
4 Bear with me here. The World Factbook says that there are 1.88 men per women in Qatar, but that's mainly because non-Qatari immigrants are primarily men. I'm going to assume that the sex ratio is actually close to 1:1 for the 20% of the population that are native Qataris, and that therefore about 31% of non-Qataris are women. Can you tell how approximate we're getting here?
5 Same logic as above. The World Factbook says there are 2.28 men per women in the 15-64 age range, which (making the same assumption about a 1:1 sex ratio for Qataris) would mean just under 26% of non-Qataris are women.
Collating their (somewhat conflicting) data with the CIA World Factbook (always a dodgy undertaking) and adding a dollop of specious statistical handwaving, here's what I found:
| Total population1 | Aged 15-642 | Economically active | Employment3 | ||
| TOTAL | Qatari citizens | 168,219 | 122,617 | 50,282 | 41% |
| Non-citizens | 672,879 | 490,529 | 387,279 | 79% | |
| WOMEN | Qatari citizens | 84,110 | 61,316 | 15,163 | 25% |
| non-citizens | 210,2744 | 125,6985 | 64,458 | 51% | |
| MEN | Qatari citizens | 84,109 | 61,316 | 35,119 | 57% |
| non-citizens | 462,604 | 364,830 | 322,821 | 88% |
1 The population in 2004 was around 841,098 (the World Factbook's reported 2005 population minus last year's growth withan annual growth rate of 1.0261). Approximately 20% of these are citizens, 80% non-citizens.
2 These are very approximate. The World Factbook says 72.9% of the population is 15-64, but it seems exceedingly unlikely that the Qatari and non-Qatari groups have equivalent age structures.
3 I'm defining employment as the percentage of people age 15-64 who are "economically active." Obviously this is not equivalent to Western measures of employment, which measure only the participation of people who want to work.
4 Bear with me here. The World Factbook says that there are 1.88 men per women in Qatar, but that's mainly because non-Qatari immigrants are primarily men. I'm going to assume that the sex ratio is actually close to 1:1 for the 20% of the population that are native Qataris, and that therefore about 31% of non-Qataris are women. Can you tell how approximate we're getting here?
5 Same logic as above. The World Factbook says there are 2.28 men per women in the 15-64 age range, which (making the same assumption about a 1:1 sex ratio for Qataris) would mean just under 26% of non-Qataris are women.
