The Statistics Department of the Secretariat General of the Planning Council commenced the preparatory works of the Economic Activity Survey. This survey will cover all establishments that practice any economic activity, whether industrial, commercial, services or construction.

This survey aims to provide up to date information regarding production value, intermediate consumption, generated value added and its distribution for all economic activities, through monitoring movement of internal trade, manufacturing, construction, hotels and restaurants, transport and communications, which includes airlines bureaus, travel and tourism agencies, telephone services ة etc., business services, which includes various sectors that provide services to the society, i.e. advocate bureaus, chartered accountants, engineering and consultancy bureaus, market research, software systems ة etc., in addition to social services, which includes various types of community services, e.g. social and sport clubs activities, various recreational activities, personal care services and other related services.

This survey will provide huge amounts of data that serves planning and development in Qatar, in order to know economic growth rates in the State in all economic activities. In addition to that indicators about consumer price index will be available, which serves economic analysis and measurement of indicators.