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Table 31: Interviewed Muslim women aged 16 and over with and without
headscarf, Alevi women and women of other religions according
to age, duration of residence and selected indicators of
social integration
Muslims
with
headscarf
Muslims
without
headscarf
Alevi
women
women of
other
religion
total
according to average values
age in years 36,4 33,8 38,7 39,6 36,7
duration of residence in years
according to percentage
22,5 22,4 26,6 14,7 19,2
women educated in Germany 57,7 68,2 70,2 34,5 53,9
with good or very good
proficiency in German (index)
with intermediate or higher
49,2 72,0 68,8 57,4 60,7
school-leaving qualification
from country of origin
with intermediate or higher
24,3 36,3 21,3 60,7 44,8
school-leaving qualification
from Germany
with German vocational
49,2 59,3 57,5 65,1 58,4
qualification or higher-education
qualification
Gainfully employed (among
20,3 32,1 44,8 27,1 28,7
women aged between
16 and 64)
with membership of
30,7 43,1 44,1 52,6 44,2
one or more German
associations or similar
33,5 44,5 58,9 38,0 40,8
frequent contact with
Germans among friends
Source: MLG 2008, dataset of interviewees aged 16 and over, weighted.
* living in residential
51,1 71,0 66,9 66,8 65,3
area with predominantly
foreign population
with strong or very
57,9 35,2 36,8 32,9 38,9
strong attachment
to Germany
63,6 66,1 66,1 75,3 69,0
with German
nationality
32,8 39,6 67,9 69,2 50,9
*The responses ‘daily’, ‘several times a week’ and ‘once a week’
were grouped together under the category ‘frequent’.