This indicator provides information on subjective experience of racial discrimination, i.e. due to nationality, religion, ethnic origin, skin colour, or other physical features.
From an integration perspective, the aim is to reduce the percentage of people who have experienced racial discrimination.
People without a migration background are more than three times less likely to have experienced racial discrimination than the population with such a background.
Since 2016, the percentage of people who have experienced racial discrimination has increased among the population with a migration background.
The share of the population with a migration background that has experienced racial discrimination is significantly higher than that of people without a migration background in all language regions.
Discrimination occurs when people are treated unfairly or intolerantly, humiliated, threatened or endangered because they belong to a certain group (e.g. women, black people, etc.).
In order to measure racial discrimination, only experiences linked to nationality, religion, ethnic origin, skin colour, or other distinctive physical features were considered. Only people who had experienced racial discrimination in the five years preceding the survey were considered.
A person could indicate several grounds for discrimination.
