Muslim Voices – Hopes and aspirations of Muslim Australians Centre for Muslim Minorities & Islam Policy Studies
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Participating OrganisationsAs mentioned previously, 340,394 people voluntarily nominated Islam as their religion on the most recent national census. Of these, 168,785 live in New South Wales with the vast majority living in greater metropolitan Sydney.25 There are many mosques, schools and organisations for Muslims living in and around Sydney, however there is no authoritative list that can be consulted. A variety of different Muslim organisations and individuals were invited to participate in the current study. Table 1 shows the types of organisations that were invited to participated through letters, emails and phone-calls, and the number of groups that participated either through hosting a meeting at which Table 1. Types of organisations invited to
participate in survey. ! 25 ABS, Australia (0); idem, Sydney (SD 105); idem, “New South Wales (STE 1), Basic Community Profile, 2006,” accessed 30 October 2007; available fromhttp://www.abs.gov.au/ausstats/abs@.nsf/mf/2001.0; Internet. questionnaires were administered or distributing the URL amongst their networks. GenderIn all, 290 people participated by answering the questionnaire. Of these, 180 were female, 100 were male and 10 declined to answer. Thus, the survey is weighted more heavily towards female responses compared to the general Muslim population living in greater metropolitan Sydney, which is currently 47.9 percent.26 Table 2. Age range of participants. AgeParticipants were asked to nominate Age ranges Survey population Number % their year of birth, with 268 people giving meaningful results. Years were 15-24 120 41.4 25-34 66 22.8 35-44 45 15.5 45-54 26 9.0 55+ 11 3.8 grouped into age ranges and counted (see Table 2).
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a reflection of the types of people more Total n=290 100 likely to respond to online recruitment. The largest number of people fell into the category of fifteen to twenty-four years of age, with 120 participants or 41.4 percent of those who answered the question on age. The next largest group fell into the age range of twenty-five to thirty-four years of age, at 22.8 percent. Directory: sites -> default -> files -> documents -> 01 2014 documents -> Ace abi catair customs and Trade Automated Interface Requirements documents -> Mobile audio/video recording systems documents -> The south australian government gazette documents -> All public acts appearing in this gazette are to be considered official, and obeyed as such documents -> Union interparlementaire inter-parliamentary union 01 2014 -> Voices Shaping the 01 2014 -> Prepared by: Kais Al‐Momani Nour Dados Marion Maddox Amanda Wise C 01 2014 -> Editors: Kerry Download 1.6 Mb. Share with your friends:
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