funded while 31,5% rely on government loans and 19,8% on commercial loans. The RCCI' study, which covered 825 factories, explained that 67,6% of the facilities of the industrial sector in Riyadh are individual institutions of which 97% are owned by businessmen and only 1% by female businesswomen, and that 67% of these factories are located outside industrial cities, which are mostly engaged in the manufacture of metals and metal products, in addition to some other industries. The study added that expats occupy 73,7% of the total workforce in the manufacturing sector, while the number of Saudis who occupy managerial positions in the sector reach 53% of the total of such employment, stressing that the lack of commitment to working time and lack of training and qualification in the field of industry and low salaries are the main factors that limit the employment of Saudi citizens in the industrial sector in which the Saudization rate accounts for 26,3%.
