Muslim Life in Germany - Deutsche Islam Konferenz

282 Aspects of Integration
per cent) and persons with a Turkish migrant background (39
per cent) state slightly more frequently than persons from other
regions that they live in areas in which foreigners represent the
majority of the residents. The corresponding figure among interviewees
from Central Asia and CIS stands at 33 per cent, followed
by persons from the Middle East (30 per cent), North Africa
(28 per cent) and South/Southeast Asia (28 per cent). People
from Iran (25 per cent) and Southeast Europe (24 per cent) are
least likely to live in a residential environment inhabited predominantly
by foreigners (figure 81).
Figure 81: Interviewees with migrant background living in residential
environment with predominantly foreign population, according
to country of origin (in per cent)
100
90
80
70
60
50
40
30
20
10
0
76,3
23,7
Southeast
Europe
61,2
38,8
Turkey
66,8
33,2
Central
Asia/CIS
75,5 71,9 70,5 71,8
24,5 28,1 29,5 28,2
Iran
South/Southeast
Asia
Middle
East
North
Africa
Majority foreign population Majority German population
60,8
39,2
Source: MLG 2008, dataset of interviewees aged 16 and over, weighted.
Unweighted number of cases: 5,082
A breakdown into Muslims and interviewees belonging
to other religions reveals that Muslims (38 per cent) are slightly
more likely than non-Muslims (29 per cent) to live in an area
inhabited predominantly by foreigners. When the interviewees’
other parts of Africa