A survey of high-school students carried out in 2000–2001 suggests that 30–40 per cent of young people have a Muslim background, F. Lorcerie, „Cités cosmopolites. Sur les identités sociales des lycéens marseillais” (Cosmopolitan estates. On the social identities of high-school students of Marseille), Report for FASILD, IREMAMCNRS, Aix-en-Provence, January 2005. Survey carried out with V. Geisser and L. Panafit.
„Research suggests that somewhere between 30 per cent and 40 per cent of the population is Muslim”, „Muslims make up almost one-third of Marseille’s population”, Muslims in Marseille, Open Society Foundations, 20 September 2011 by Vincent Geisser, a scholar of Islam and immigration at the French National Centre for Scientific Research and Françoise Lorcerie.
