Muslim Life in Germany - Deutsche Islam Konferenz

186 Religiousness and religious practice
4.7.1 Breakdown of Muslim women with and without
a headscarf
A total of 3,737 Muslim girls and women live in the surveyed
households. Information on whether they wear a headscarf
or not is available for 99.8 per cent of these women.
28 per cent of the female Muslims living in the surveyed
households wear a headscarf (figure 48). A clear majority of
these female Muslims (72 per cent) do not wear a headscarf. A
significant link exists between the regional origin and the proportion
of women who wear a headscarf. Hardly any of the Muslim
women originating from Southeast Europe, Central Asia/
CIS and Iran wear a headscarf. A disproportionately high level
of female Turkish and North African Muslims wear a headscarf
(over 30 per cent in each instance).
Figure 48: Share of headscarf-wearing Muslim girls and women according
to region of origin (in per cent)
Southeast
Europe
Turkey
Central
Asia/CIS
Iran
South/Southeast
Asia
Middle
East
North
Africa
other parts of
Africa
total
0% 10% 20% 30% 40% 50% 60% 70% 80% 90% 100%
4,5
4,2
2,2
22,2
31,4
28,1
29,5
27,6
34,9
95,5
95,8
97,8
Source: MLG 2008, dataset covering all household members, weighted.
Unweighted number of cases: 3,728
77,8
68,6
71,9
70,5
72,4
65,1
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