The Zarathushti World, A Demographic Picture, compiled by Roshan Rivetna and published through the Federation of Zoroastrian Associations of North America, is the community's own worldwide demographic survey, conducted in 2012 to mark FEZANA's twenty fifth anniversary and compared against an earlier 2004 survey, covering twenty five countries plus every US state and Canadian province. As a federation commissioned self-count rather than an outside academic census, it is the best and only systematic attempt at a global Zoroastrian population figure that exists, which is why this atlas relies on it for that number. FEZANA's own published material describes the survey candidly as a magazine style compilation drawing on varied local reporting rather than a statistically rigorous census, so its country by country figures, and the population range they produce, carry real margins of error the federation itself acknowledges rather than presenting as an exact count.
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Reliability Tier1
Reliability tier 1: the community's own systematic worldwide demographic survey, the best and only attempt at a global figure of its kind though its own publishers describe its country by country figures as carrying real margins of error. NotesThe 2012 FEZANA worldwide Zarathushti demographic study; the only systematic global count of Zoroastrians and the source of the 111,691-121,962 range.
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Custodian SourceYes
Custodian BodyFederation of Zoroastrian Associations of North America (FEZANA)
Custodian BasisA demographic picture commissioned and published by the community own federation. Authoritative for what the community counts of itself.
Citation
AuthorRoshan Rivetna
PublisherFederation of Zoroastrian Associations of North America (FEZANA)
Publication Year2013
Source TypeDemographic study
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This source names Americas directly: "The Zarathushti World, A Demographic Picture, compiled by Roshan Rivetna and published through the Federation of Zoroastrian Associations of North America, is the community's own worldwide..."
This source names Global directly: "best and only systematic attempt at a global Zoroastrian population figure that exists, which is why this atlas relies on it for that number."
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This source backs 16 claims across the atlas. As facts: 13 well-attested. As cited relationships: 2 holds. Plus 1 entities citing it as a general reference with no single fact or relationship attached.
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- Sources, 12 claims: 10 well-attested, 2 holds.
- Religions, 4 claims: 3 well-attested, 1 general references.
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