Displaced Persons in Austria Survey (DiPAS) in the News
20 AUG 2017
In a recently published interview with Judith Kohlenberger, ORF.at presented new results from the “Displaced Persons in Austria Survey (DiPAS)” conducted at the Wittgenstein Centre. The focus was placed on the religiosity of asylum seekers and refugees, which largely concurs with self-assessed levels of religious intensity of Austrians from the same age groups. The report concludes that Syrian and Iraqi forced migrants, who came to Austria in the fall of 2015, were part of a well-educated, liberal middle class.
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