Integration Report 2007

Original title: Jaarrapport integratie 2007.

The Annual Report on Integration 2007 describes the integration of non-Western ethnic minorities in the Netherlands using a wide range of indicators. It focuses among other things on the situation of ethnic minority pupils in education, the position of ethnic minorities on the labour and housing markets, their representation in the crime figures, their socio-cultural integration and the importance of religion.
The picture as regards the integration of non-Western ethnic minorities is mixed: some groups have a major socioeconomic disadvantage and a considerable sociocultural disadvantage. At the same time, the diversity between and within groups is so great that there are also clear positive developments taking place in education and on the labour and housing markets.

The Annual Report on Integration is compiled by the Netherlands Institute for Social Research/SCP at the request of the Dutch Minister of Housing, Communities and Integration, and forms part of the information provided to the Dutch Parliament on non-Western ethnic minorities. It also contains contributions from authors attached to Statistics Netherlands, the Regioplan research company and the Ministry of Justice Research and Documentation Centre (WODC).