Jedi Knights in Britain
Feb 13th 2003, 11:30 am
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Jedi Knights in Britain
Its now official. There are over 390,000 Jehdi Knights in Britain.
With 0.7% of the population , Jedhi was a bigger religious group in the 2001 Census than Sikhism, Judaism and Buddism.
How many are there in Australia? - maybe those of us emigrating shortly should spread the word.
With 0.7% of the population , Jedhi was a bigger religious group in the 2001 Census than Sikhism, Judaism and Buddism.
How many are there in Australia? - maybe those of us emigrating shortly should spread the word.
Feb 13th 2003, 12:30 pm
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Re: Jedi Knights in Britain
Originally posted by kevmitch
Its now official. There are over 390,000 Jehdi Knights in Britain.
With 0.7% of the population , Jedhi was a bigger religious group in the 2001 Census than Sikhism, Judaism and Buddism.
How many are there in Australia? - maybe those of us emigrating shortly should spread the word.
Its now official. There are over 390,000 Jehdi Knights in Britain.
With 0.7% of the population , Jedhi was a bigger religious group in the 2001 Census than Sikhism, Judaism and Buddism.
How many are there in Australia? - maybe those of us emigrating shortly should spread the word.
Anyone know how much it costs to ship an X-wing to Oz?
Feb 13th 2003, 5:24 pm
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I was actually involved with collecting in and chasing up non-returns of census forms.
I had to check over 5000 forms and they all had to include religion, some of the best ones were 'Viking' , 'Vulcan', 'Druid' and of course the ever popular 'Jedi knight'. We had a few laughs reading the forms I can tell you!!
I had to check over 5000 forms and they all had to include religion, some of the best ones were 'Viking' , 'Vulcan', 'Druid' and of course the ever popular 'Jedi knight'. We had a few laughs reading the forms I can tell you!!
Feb 13th 2003, 7:39 pm
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i heard on the radio tonight that there are 70,000 less people living in the north east than 10 years ago.
i wonder where they have all gone? the mackems playing so badly might count for a few??????
i wonder where they have all gone? the mackems playing so badly might count for a few??????
Feb 13th 2003, 7:47 pm
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Originally posted by tinaj
I was actually involved with collecting in and chasing up non-returns of census forms.
I had to check over 5000 forms and they all had to include religion, some of the best ones were 'Viking' , 'Vulcan', 'Druid' and of course the ever popular 'Jedi knight'. We had a few laughs reading the forms I can tell you!!
I was actually involved with collecting in and chasing up non-returns of census forms.
I had to check over 5000 forms and they all had to include religion, some of the best ones were 'Viking' , 'Vulcan', 'Druid' and of course the ever popular 'Jedi knight'. We had a few laughs reading the forms I can tell you!!
I was involved in delivering and collecting the census forms too. I covered the council estate near where we used to live. WOW what an eye opener (and nose opener) to the way alot of people live
. had to be escorted by my husband in some streets as they were not safe :scared: Paula
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Feb 13th 2003, 9:53 pm
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me too! though I got the theatre district of London - lucky me, most of the addresses either didn't exist or were theatres (where the staff looked at me very strangely when I asked if anyone lived there and did they have a census form.. most didn't realise they had a live-in caretaker!).
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Feb 14th 2003, 4:13 am
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Re: Jedi Knights in Britain
Originally posted by kevmitch
Its now official. There are over 390,000 Jehdi Knights in Britain.
With 0.7% of the population , Jedhi was a bigger religious group in the 2001 Census than Sikhism, Judaism and Buddism.
How many are there in Australia? - maybe those of us emigrating shortly should spread the word.
Its now official. There are over 390,000 Jehdi Knights in Britain.
With 0.7% of the population , Jedhi was a bigger religious group in the 2001 Census than Sikhism, Judaism and Buddism.
How many are there in Australia? - maybe those of us emigrating shortly should spread the word.
Australia embraces the force
August 27 2002
More than 70,000 Australians identified their religion as Jedi, Jedi Knight or Jedi-related in last year's national census.
The high number of Jedi-related religions was a response to an email published before the census calling on Star Wars fans to state Jedi as their religion.
"If there are enough people in the country, about 10,000, who put down the same religion, it becomes a fully recognised and legal religion," the email said.
The Australian Bureau of Statistics (ABS) said Jedi or Jedi-related responses had been categorised as not defined for census output purposes.
"However, due to interest in this matter further analysis of census responses has been undertaken since the release of census data on 17 June to separately identify the number of Jedi-related responses," an ABS spokesman said.
He said 0.37 per cent, or 70,509 people, provided Jedi or a Jedi-related response on their census form.
"The optional religious question was included in the 2001 Census because, outside of government, religious organisations are the biggest provider of a range of services to the community, such as education, hospitals, and aged care facilities," the spokesman said.
"For example, around 30 per cent of Australian children attend schools provided by religious organisations. "Census information is important for planning these facilities."
AAP
