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The object of this web site is to make available analyses of the data from the three Zoroastrian surveys in the UK, 1976 to 2003, that have not been published.

Professor J.R.Hinnells has written extensively regarding the first two surveys, those of 1976 and 1985, in his published works. The third survey has not been published to the same extent.

The three surveys are compared in the first paper. The latter papers contain aspects of the data analyses of the three individual surveys that have not been published.

The surveys were not conducted using random samples: they were snowball samples with people who had not received questionnaires asking to take part in the survey. As a result this was not a random sample of Zoroastrians in the UK therefore the data analyses can only refer to the people who took part in the survey and cannot be extrapolated to the wider European Zoroastrian community. However, it has been found that some of the results of the data analyses for some of the repeat questions from the 1976 survey have been replicated in the later surveys of 1985 and 2003. The data analyses reported below are measures of association and the relationships of association do not imply that one causes the other.

Codicil: DNA is the way forward to research Zoroastrians' past, both near and ancient.

AutosomalDNA suggests that there was little mixing with the local population in the sub continent, as the Parsi myth relates.

YDNA, that the male line has roots in the Fertile Crescent, were farming originates. It should be noted that all the monotheistic religions of which we have knowledge today, have their origins in the Fertile Crescent area.