The survey was based on face-to-face interviews in 2016 with over 25,000 people from different immigrant and ethnic minority groups in all 28 EU Member States. Of these, over 10,500 were people who self-identified as Muslim when asked about their religion.
The Muslims interviewed were 16 or older in Austria, Belgium, Cyprus, Denmark, Finland, France, Germany, Greece, Italy, Malta, The Netherlands, Slovenia, Spain, Sweden, and the UK. They came from: Turkey; North Africa; Sub-Saharan Africa; and South Asia (in Cyprus, Asia). In addition, the Slovenian data refer to recent immigrants who immigrated to the EU in the past 10 years from non-EU countries.
All respondents were selected randomly and the survey results are representative for selected groups of Muslim immigrants born outside the EU (first generation) and for descendants of immigrants (second generation) with at least one parent born outside the EU. More detailed information can be found in the technical Q&A.
This survey builds on the first EU-MIDIS survey in 2008 which provided the first comparative evidence on discrimination against and crime victimisation of Muslims in 12 EU Member States.