Aussie Jedis force census rethink

More than 70,000 fans of the Star Wars films have upset Australia’s statistics agency by identifying their religion as "Jedi" during last year’s national census.

The Australian Bureau of Statistics said today that 0.37% of the nation’s population of 19 million, or 70,509 people, had written Jedi or a related response to an optional question about their faith when the head count was taken last August.