Muslim Life in Germany - Deutsche Islam Konferenz

Religiousness and religious practice 191
Figure 52: Interviewed Muslim women aged 16 and over according to
frequency with which the headscarf is worn and migrant
generation (in per cent)
1st generation
2nd generation
0% 10% 20% 30% 40% 50% 60% 70% 80% 90% 100%
25,2
17,8 11,5
2,7 3,1
69,0
70,7
yes, always yes, usually yes, sometimes no, never
Source: MLG 2008, dataset of interviewees aged 16 and over, weighted.
Unweighted number of cases: 1,092
In the second generation, wearing a headscarf becomes
a significantly less common practice. While roughly the same
proportion of Muslim women who were born abroad and those
who were born in Germany state that they never wear a headscarf
(figure 52), the proportion of members of the second generation
who always wear a headscarf is just over 7 percentage
points lower than among women of the first generation. The
differences are evidently accountable to the fact that the women
born in Germany are much less likely to wear a headscarf
on a regular basis. A disproportionately large number of these
women state that they do so sometimes.