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Oliver Duke-Williams, Adam Dennett and Nicola Shelton, UCL
(Project no. 1007286)
This is a proposed engagement activity by CeLSIUS staff to increase knowledge about the availability and content of the LS to a wider pool of potential users.
The research output will be a short paper aimed at the well-known BMJ 'Christmas edition' which includes light-hearted (but reporting valid results) articles. The 2017 Christmas edition will be published around the time of the release of the next Star Wars movie; this paper will report issues related to Jedi religious affiliation as documented in the census returns of 2001 and 2011. A number of avenues will be explored:
· Whether those who claimed Jedi affiliation in 2001 also did so in 2011. Where a change has occurred: to what (if any) religion did Jedi convert (and from what, if any, religion did new devotees convert)?
· Were there any differential outcomes in self-reported general health for those with continuity of Jedi affiliation, compared to those who had deserted the religion? Similarly, are there differential outcomes for other indicators of health: limiting long-term illness, cancer registrations, death registrations [NB It is accepted that the numbers for some of these may turn out to be too low to be of practical use]
· Whether parents claiming Jedi (or,more broadly, other non-traditional religions) affiliation for themselves also do so on behalf of co-resident dependent children
· Whether any such children who aged out of their parental home in the period 2001-2011 continue to claim non-traditional affiliation in 2011
A longer-term more academically focussed question arises. The 'Jedi phenomenon' has been reported in a number of different countries (UK, Australia, New Zealand, Ireland), with different responses by national statistical agencies. Does this have any relationship with citizen involvement in the census?