Muslim Life in Germany - Deutsche Islam Konferenz

226 Aspects of Integration
Table 37: Sources of household income for interviewees with migrant
background according to region of origin and religion (in per
cent); interviewees were able to state more than one source
Southeast
Turkey
Europe
Central
Asia/CIS Iran
South/
Southeast
Asia
Middle North
East Africa
other
parts of
Africa
Wage/salary
Muslim 81,1 75,2 28,6 67,1 70,8 62,1 78,4 73,3
Other religion
Self-employment
70,5 56,3 72,6 63,2 66,0 63,4 60,0 80,9
Muslim 19,6 19,9 9,1 30,0 34,2 25,0 25,6 13,8
Other religion
(Early retirement) pension
17,0 49,5 11,6 21,1 24,1 31,0 25,0 18,9
Muslim 5,6 12,9 4,8 7,1 8,4 10,1 13,1 10,0
Other religion
Unemployment benefit I
27,5 9,3 0,0 22,2 8,3 20,0 6,7
Muslim 5,0 4,0 2,9 5,0 5,1 5,7 10,0
Other religion 5,0 5,2 3,4 0,0 1,9 4,2 4,4
Unemployment benefit II (Hartz IV, social welfare)
Muslim 16,6 11,5 52,4 17,1 28,3 32,2 15,3 20,0
Other religion 10,5 17,7 20,6 27,8 11,1 27,1 0,0 16,5
Other transfer payments (e.g. student grant, housing allowance)
Muslim 12,6 6,8 4,8 14,3 17,5 10,6 13,6 10,0
Other religion 6,7 6,3 10,7 16,7 7,4 7,0 20,0 9,9
Maintenance payments from third parties
Muslim 4,0 1,7 0,0 2,9 2,5 3,0 6,3 10,0
Other religion 5,0 3,8 5,3 5,6 2,8 6,7
Source: MLG 2008, dataset of interviewees aged 16 and over, weighted.
Unweighted number of cases: 4,321
When all forms of income are considered together, 20
per cent of all interviewees with a migrant background from
a predominantly Muslim country live in a household in which