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		</div><p><a href="http://londonglossy.com/wp-content/uploads/2011/02/no-force-to-stop-jedi-census-answer.jpg"><img class="alignnone size-full" title="People who want to refer to their religion as Jedi, like in Star Wars, will be able to in the 2011 census" src="http://londonglossy.com/wp-content/uploads/2011/02/min-no-force-to-stop-jedi-census-answer.jpg" alt="People who want to refer to their religion as Jedi, like in Star Wars, will be able to in the 2011 census"/></a></p>
<p>People who want to declare their religion as &#8220;Jedi&#8221; or call themselves witches will still be able to do so in the 2011 Census, its director has said.</p>
<p>In 2001 &#8211; the first time the questionnaire contained a voluntary question about faith &#8211; almost 400,000 people claimed they were members of the Star Wars movement.</p>
<p>Glen Watson, the Office for National Statistics (ONS) Census Director, said although putting joke responses on the national survey form was &#8220;not an acceptable thing to do&#8221;, it could not be stopped.</p>
<p>Speaking at the launch of the advertising campaign for the £482 million information-gathering exercise, he said: &#8220;The religion question is the only voluntary question on the whole questionnaire.</p>
<p>&#8220;We would process the information and we would include that in the results, I imagine.</p>
<p>&#8220;I don&#8217;t think we would pursue somebody for declaring their religion, for example, as Jedi.</p>
<p>&#8220;As I say, it&#8217;s a voluntary question. I&#8217;m not really saying that we can stop it.</p>
<p>&#8220;If people really want to express their religious affiliation in a particular way, they&#8217;re within their rights to do so.&#8221;</p>
<p>Since the last census, the use of social networking websites such as Facebook and Twitter has rocketed and campaigners have used them as tools to galvanise support for various movements.</p>
<p>In 2009, a Facebook campaign led to the rock group Rage Against the Machine taking the Christmas chart number one spot ahead of X Factor winner Joe McElderry in a grass-roots plot apparently aimed against Simon Cowell.</p>
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