Who supports refugees? Diversity assent and pro-refugee engagement in Germany

Comparative Migration Studies

Table 1 Configurations of attitudes towards various aspects of diversity in urban Germany

Nested 5-group classification:	Committed	Hands-off	Moderate	Undecided	Sceptical	Whole sample (grand mean^a)
Young people profit from intergroup contact	0.99	0.96	0.95	0.76	0.45	0.81
Good to hear many languages	0.90	0.88	0.72	0.36	0.16	0.57
Public funding for minorities	0.95	0.94	0.85	0.40	0.24	0.64
Parliaments should reflect diversity of population	0.94	0.92	0.80	0.53	0.33	0.68
Muslims have right to build mosques	0.86	0.83	0.66	0.34	0.11	0.53
All religions should be taught equally	0.97	0.88	0.79	0.77	0.47	0.76
Increase share of disadvantaged groups in public service	0.40	0.24	0.11	0.8	0.10	0.16
Media should report more about discrimination	0.90	0.74	0.62	0.53	0.43	0.62
Too little done for Muslims	0.81	0.20	0.16	0.10	0.04	0.20
Too little done for gays and lesbians	0.90	0.33	0.30	0.34	0.16	0.35
Unweighted share (%)	10.26	23.22	21.13	23.74	21.65
Weighted share (%)	9.37	19.00	19.39	29.76	22.49

Note: Mean values for various diversity attitudes (rows) for each configuration (column). Bolded values are significantly higher than the next lowest value (p < .05, one-tailed test)
A grand mean is calculated for observations that have been assigned to a latent class (N = 2915). Because LCA uses casewise deletion, however, the total number of respondents involved in the computation and each of these means vary by variable, in part depending on the answer format of the question and the data transformation involved. For forced choice questions, the means do not take into account unsolicited “don’t know” answers and refusal due to the difficulty involved in coding them. While the means for the top five questions are based on 2915 cases, the bottom 5 are based on 2699, 2807, 2406, 2426, and 2571 cases, respectively