Muslim Life in Germany - Deutsche Islam Konferenz

Figure 61: Occupational standing of interviewees with migrant
background according to region of origin and religion
(in per cent)
100%
80%
60%
40%
20%
0%
42,5
43,2
44,9
46,4
47,4
56,7
27,3
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40,4
46,4 27,2
33,3
35,3
56,3
57,7
43,8
5,8
9,9
16,0
35,0
5,1
28,6 26,5 23,3 22,2 23,7
10,3 6,3 8,3
45,5
50,0
53,8
43,1
66,7
55,9
22,5
59,1
25,0 27,3 28,6
16,7
32,1
26,3
32,1
37,5 45,8
50,0
Muslim
Other
religion
Southeast
Europe
Muslim
Other
religion
Muslim
Other
religion
Turkey Central
Asia/CIS
Muslim
Other
religion
Muslim
Other
religion
Iran South/
Southeast
Asia
Muslim
Other
religion
Middle
Eas t
Muslim
0,0
Other
religion
North
Africa
Muslim
Other
religion
other
parts
of Africa
Blue-collar worker White-collar worker Civil servant Self-employed
Source: MLG 2008, dataset of interviewees aged 16 and over, weighted.
Unweighted number of cases: 2,096 (gainfully employed persons only).
Among the interviewees from predominantly Muslim
countries of origin the occupational standing is closely genderlinked,
as shown above. The crucial factor is school education,
which correlates very closely to occupational standing. 67 per
cent of gainfully employed interviewees who completed their
schooling in Germany without any qualifications are blue-collar
workers, while only 17 per cent of persons with the ‘Abitur’ university
entrance level school-leaving certificate, 46 per cent of
those with the intermediate school-leaving qualification and
53 per cent of those with the secondary school-leaving qualification
are blue-collar workers. 48 per cent of ‘Abitur’ holders
are white-collar workers and 34 per cent are self-employed. 44
per cent of those who acquired school-leaving qualifications