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Figure 21: Average age upon immigration of interviewees with migrant
background of the first generation according to region of
origin and religion (in years)
Southeast Europe
Turkey
Central Asia/CIS
Iran
South/Southeast Asia
Middle East
North Africa
other parts of Africa
0 5 10 15 20 25 30
9,1
17,1
16,7
17,1
18,5
19,4
19,6
19,7
Muslims Other religion
Source: MLG 2008, dataset of interviewees aged 16 and over, weighted.
Unweighted number of cases: 3,575
22,0
23,6
22,9
24,2
25,6
23,8
22,5
3.3 Reasons for immigration
The interviewees were asked whether various specified
reasons for immigrating applied to them. The majority of the
surveyed migrants were motivated to immigrate to Germany
on more than one ground. More than half of those who were
not born in Germany (61 per cent) state at least two grounds for
coming to Germany.
The most common ground for migrating to Germany is
migration as part of a migrating family (62 per cent) or to join
family members already resident in Germany (41 per cent). For
almost 22 per cent of the interviewed immigrants, work prospects
constituted an important factor in their decision to come
28,1