Table 4.

Self-assessed income and economic position relative to the home country population

	Afghanistan		Iraq		Syria		Albania		Serbia
	Income	Economic Position	Income	Economic Position	Income	Economic Position	Income	Economic Position	Income	Economic Position
Below Average	29.5	21.6	29.9	25.3	34.2	17.9	76.0	76.9	87.3	85.3
Average	48.8	50.1	50.9	56.0	43.3	53.0	21.0	20.7	12.7	14.7
Above Average	21.7	28.4	19.2	18.7	22.5	29.1	3.0	2.4	0.0	0.0
Total	100.0	100.0	100.0	100.0	100.0	100.0	100.0	100.0	100.0	100.0

Notes: Reported figures correspond to the weighted share of asylum seekers in each cell. Income refers to the following question: “If you compare your net income at that time with the income of other people in your country, how would you describe your level of net income there?” Economic Position pertains to the following question: “How would you estimate your financial situation at that time with the income of other people in your country?” For each question, five answers were available: (1) well above average, (2) above average, (3) average, (4) below average, and (5) well below average. I group (1) and (2) in the “above average” category, while (4) and (5) are grouped in the “below average” category.

Source: Author’s calculations based on IAB-BAMF-SOEP Refugee Sample.