Frequency Distribution of Zoroastrians in the 1976 Data Set

Fifteen per cent of the respondents were over sixty years of age and fifteen per cent were under thirty years, with the mean age for the whole sample being forty one years.  The majority of the respondents spoke English as one of their "mother tongues" and this facility with English was reflected in their educational and occupational qualifications. Seventy-two per cent of the respondents had had some type of higher education. Twenty-seven per cent were in the professions and of those respondents who were gainfully occupied fifty per cent were in "middle class" occupations. Five per cent were in "working class" occupations and these were of the skilled type.

In the total sample, fifty-seven per cent were men and forty-three per cent were women. Nineteen per cent of the respondents had never been married and just over half of these were men. Of those who had been married, fifteen per cent were married to non-Zoroastrians. Sixty-eight per cent of those respondents who had children had either one or two children, with a further twenty-two per cent having three children. The majority of respondents had extended family relations living in the UK, and ninety-four per cent of all respondents corresponded abroad on a regular basis. With regard to keeping contact with Zoroastrian friends in the UK, forty-two per cent did so on a regular basis, while only one per cent did not have any Zoroastrian friends.