Muslim Life in Germany - Deutsche Islam Konferenz

56 How many Muslims live in Germany?
The distributions utilised for the projections are based on
evaluations of the BAMF’s Muslim Life in Germany 2008 study
data for the persons with a relevant migrant background living
in these households. The values determined in each case
for the share of Muslims with a relevant foreign nationality or
other nationality and a relevant migrant background are extrapolated
on the basis of data from the AZR as at 30 June 2008.
The designation “persons with a relevant foreign nationality”
is hereby given to household members who are nationals of
one of the countries of origin covered in the study who do not
have German citizenship. Individuals with a relevant migrant
background who have German citizenship are designated as
“Germans with a relevant migrant background”. 3 per cent of
those with a relevant migrant background are citizens solely
of a country which is not covered here (e.g. France). As a result,
they could not be taken into account in the extrapolation of the
number of persons with a relevant foreign nationality as projected
onto the corresponding nationality group of the AZR. In
view of the small number of cases, it would not be worthwhile to
deal with this group separately. Due to the fact that, as with the
“Germans with a relevant migrant background”, they are not
nationals of the corresponding country of origin, yet still have
a relevant migrant background, they are assigned to the group
“Germans with a relevant migrant background” for the purposes
of the extrapolation. The group “persons with a relevant
migrant background” is comprised of the sum of both aforementioned
groups, i.e. “persons with a relevant nationality” and
“Germans with a relevant migrant background”. In other words,
this group is comprised of all the individuals who come from
one of the predominantly Muslim countries covered by this
study, regardless of whether they are foreign nationals or not.