Integration Monitoring

The Integration Monitoring team focuses on equal participation, involvement, and equal opportunities for people with an immigrant background in Germany. This also includes the openness and acceptance of society and its institutions toward people with an immigrant background—an essential component of integration. For example, the analysis examines the role that one’s own migration experience—or that of one’s parents—plays in integration into the labor market, in one’s own education, and even in health: 

• Are there differences in the areas examined between direct immigrants, their descendants, and people without an immigrant background?

• Are existing inequalities between these groups increasing or decreasing over time?

Every two years, the team compiles the Integration Report for the Federal Government Commissioner for Migration, Refugees, and Integration—who also serves as the Federal Government Commissioner for Anti-Racism—and describes the development and current state of integration using approximately 58 integration indicators across 14 thematic areas. In addition, the team collaborates with the Federal Statistical Office, which visualizes all indicators on the “Integration Dashboard.”