Employment by Citizenship and Sector

Explore the dataset on employment by citizenship and sector in Bahrain . Analyze data on domestic workers, total employment, public and private sectors, Bahraini and non-Bahraini workers, as well as gender breakdown by male and female.

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Source: Data extracted from files submitted by Expatriate Management System (LMRA-EMS), General Organization for Social Insurance (GOSI), Pension Fund Commission (PFC), and Civil Service Bureau (CSB) monthly data files to LMRA. Labor Force Survey 2004. For details see "Estimation of Employment and wages (tables A and B)" in the Documents section of the website.

'Notes:

1. Data for 2006 Q2 is that of 2006 April and for 2006 Q3 is that of 2006 August.

2. From 2008 Q2 onward, "Public sector" for Non-Bahraini workers refers to workers in the "Government sector" of the Expatriate Management System (EMS) of LMRA. Correspondingly, "Private Sector" for Non-Bahraini workers refers to the sum of "Commercial" and "Non-Commercial, Non-Government" (NCNG) sectors of LMRA's EMS system.

3. Male popluation includes persons with unrecorded sex attribute.

4. Details may not add up to totals due to rounding error. Also, data from this table may differ from totals obtained from other tables in the series (Tables A1, A2, A06, A07, A10 and A99).

5. From the period 2019 Q1 onwards the Domestic permit counts, have been reviewed to include the domestic workers holding Active work permit in addition to In-progress permits issued with a residence permit. The count also includes domestic permits due for renewal that have not been terminated or cancelled by the employer.