Muslim Life in Germany - Deutsche Islam Konferenz

Concise profiles of the migrant group 297
gainful employment from this region is particularly striking.
The remaining 25 per cent are unemployed or seeking a job,
however. The relatively high proportion of unemployed/jobseeking
Muslims (around 16 per cent) from Central Asia/CIS is in
keeping with the finding that unemployment benefit II or social
welfare contributes to the income of 52 per cent of households.
As with Turkish Muslims, a household comprises 3.8 persons
on average. Moreover, the average number of 1.7 children
is higher than for the other groups studied.
Muslims from Central Asia/CIS seem to be very well socially
integrated in society and are characterised by a high degree
of openness towards Germans.
Around 86 per cent of this group are Sunnis. Although
they say that they are very devout, Muslims from Central Asia/
CIS barely participate in public religious life and they largely
abstain from religious practices. They are never members of
religious organisations at all and they are only marginally active
in religious community life.
6.4 Muslims from Iran
Among migrants with an Iranian migrant background
living in Germany less than half profess to Islam, which means
that Muslims are a minority among migrants of Iranian origin.
38 per cent of people in this group say that they do not belong to
any religious community, making this the highest proportion of
all groups examined. The number of Muslims from Iran is estimated
at between 61,000 and 80,000, with a mean estimate of
70,000. This figure includes 33,000 Iranian citizens and 37,000
Germans of Iranian origin. This means that around 2 per cent of