The 2001 census campaign spread by chain email through the English- speaking world and rested on a false premise: that a religion recorded by enough respondents would gain some form of official recognition. No such threshold existed anywhere. It worked anyway. England and Wales recorded 390,127 Jedi, the fourth largest answer to the religion question; Australia recorded more than 70,000; New Zealand about 53,000, the highest share of any population; Canada around 21,000. The statistical agencies coded the responses out. In England and Wales the figure fell to 176,632 in 2011, and for the 2021 census the Office for National Statistics placed Jedi Knight under the parent category No religion. Humanists UK campaigned against the write-in in 2021 on the ground that it inflates the religious count, which is the opposite of what most respondents intended.