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an analysis of this area has to be based on the interviewees’ responses,
however.
In order to obtain an overview of how the interviewees
from countries of origin with a predominantly Muslim population
regard their language skills as a whole, the four language
areas were grouped together to form a “German proficiency”
index. The respective assessments of the four language areas
were added up in order to analyse the German proficiency of
the interviewees as a whole. This procedure revealed that 22 per
cent consider their level of German proficiency to be very good,
while 39 per cent assess themselves as good and 28 per cent as
mediocre. 8 per cent of the interviewees regard their level of
German proficiency as poor, while only 2 and 1 per cent respectively
have a very poor knowledge of German or no knowledge
of the language at all (figure 62).
Figure 62: Self-assessment of German language proficiency by inter-
viewees with migrant background as a whole (in per cent)
21,8 % Very good
2,2 % No proficiency
0,8 % Very poor
8,0 % Poor
27,7 % Average
39,4 % Good
Source: MLG 2008, dataset of interviewees aged 16 and over, weighted.
Unweighted number of cases: 4,285
A more differentiated assessment of language proficiency
analyses the interviewees’ skills in the respective language areas