Muslim Life in Germany - Deutsche Islam Konferenz

264 Aspects of Integration
Figure 74: Frequency of contact with Germans among friends for interviewees
with migrant background according to region of origin
and religion (in per cent)
100%
90%
80%
70%
60%
50%
40%
30%
20%
83,1 79,0
66,7
18,6
82,1
13,9
14,7
3,0 6,0
6,3
15,0
10%
11,6
0%
Muslim
Other
religion
Southeast
Europe
Muslim
Other
religion
90,9
9,1
Muslim
64,2 58,6 63,2
23,7
22,9
12,1 18,6
Other
religion
Turkey Central
Asia/CIS
Muslim
31,6 20,2
5,3
Other
religion
72,3 79,6 74,9 78,9 78,7
7,6
Muslim
16,7 18,1 16,9 16,7
3,7 7,0 4,2 4,6
Other
religion
Iran South/
Southeast
Asia
100,0
Source: MLG 2008, dataset of interviewees aged 16 and over, weighted.
Unweighted number of cases: 4,541 (Occasional: several times a month or less;
frequent= daily, several times a week or once a week).
Muslim
Other
religion
Middle
Eas t
Muslim
0,0
Other
religion
North
Africa
61,3
73,6
22,6
16,1
Muslim
19,8
6,6
Other
religion
other parts
of Africa
Never Occas ional Frequent
In the light of the research conducted into friendship
networks, the relatively good networking resulting from frequent
contact with the native population among the friends
of migrants from predominantly Muslim countries of origin is
surprising. An analysis by the German Socio-Economic Panel
in 2006 revealed that 62 per cent of Turkish interviewees had
no Germans among their three best friends (Haug 2008), for
example, while the integration survey conducted by the Federal
Institute for Population Research established that 26 percent of
German-born Turks and 36 per cent of Turkish nationals aged