Economic dependency and age dependency are holding steady at 33% and 16 % respectively during the first and second quarters of 2013. The working- age-population amounts to 1.7 million people; 1.3 of them are males whereas 346 thousand are females. The number of Qatari working-age-population attains 172 thousand individuals at a rate of 10%.    A slight increase in the size of labor force compared with the first quarter of 2013 The labor force in Qatar amounts to a million and 470 thousand economically active population, 88% and 12% of them are males and females respectively. The Qatari labor force attains 86 thousand economically active population, out of which 66.5% are males and 33.5% are females. The Highest participation rate is for the age group (25-34), it reaches 93%. The labor force total economic participation amounts to 87%, (96.2% for males and 51% for females).  The total economic participation of the Qatari labor force attains 50.1%. the Qatari males and females participation reaches 67.6% and 33.2% respectively.  The age group (25-34) records the highest participation rate, since it amounts to 93.2%, whereas the youth (15-24)participation rate reaches 64.4%. The monthly average salary for females is less than the males’   The monthly average salary for the total working male population has risen to QR10 000, whereas QR 8000 for females. The gender equality index recorded 0.77. Unemployment declined in comparison with the first quarter of 2013 Unemployment among participating individuals attains 0.3%, but among the Qataris it was 1.5%.  Unemployment among youth (15-24) came to 0.7% in the first and second quarters of 2013. Regarding the job seekers duration of unemployment, it has been clear that the rate of job seekers for a period of more than 12 months reached 16.4% of the total unemployed. The housewives represent two-thirds of the economically inactive population  The economically inactive population rate constitutes 13.0% of the total working-age-population since their number amounts to 220 thousand people. The males and females represent respectively 23% and 77% of the total economically inactive population. It is worth mentioning that half of those economically inactive females are non-Qataris with a rate of 51%. The Qatari females represent 26% of the total economically inactive population.  It is noted that the majority of females are housewives with a rate of 65% of the total economically inactive females, whereas 73% are males who are full-time students. For more details