Talk:Demographics of England
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[edit] Religion total
I'm guessing that .07% or better yet .01% would be a more accurate number for Jedi. This way the total is 100.69 percent, which you can't have and there are more Jedi than Jews. Also, the list order is otherwise largest to smallest. I'm reluctant to change this as I don't have access to the data myself but I hope information that's clearly wrong doesn't stay up too long.—The preceding unsigned comment was added by 69.162.208.206 (talk • contribs) .
- The issue is that Jedi is not counted and published as a 'religion' statistic. I think they are included in 'no religion'. The actual figure is 0.7%, and there are more Jedi than Jews, Sikhs, and Buddhists. -- zzuuzz (talk) 02:38, 25 November 2006 (UTC)
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- Then the given statistic for "Jedi" is unreferenced and ought not to be included. —The preceding unsigned comment was added by 125.239.221.102 (talk) 23:32, 22 March 2007 (UTC).
[edit] Cornish
Why would people whose ethnicity was noted as Cornish be listed in 'white other'? Cornish are indigenous to Britain and the Cornish are a British ethnic group. 'White British' surely is any indigenous person in Great Britain of Great Britain, whether they're Scottish, Welsh, English, Cornish or Yorkshireman. I believe that the article is incorrect to distinguish Cornish as 'white other'. Being Cornish does not mean that one cannot also identify as English and certainly not British Enzedbrit 07:50, 24 January 2007 (UTC)
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- 'The Cornish were recognised by the government's ONS as an ethnic group on the 2001 Census - see Census 2001 Ethnic Codes, code 06 - but they have been invisibilised in previous censuses. They are an indigenous national minority of the United Kingdom and possessors of a recognised minority language of these islands under the Council of Europe's European Charter for Regional or Minority Languages. If the UK government has made legal undertakings with the Council of Europe to take "resolute" action in support of this language, how on earth is it going to measure its compliance with international legal obligations with respect both to this language and to the people associated with it, if it does not include relevant tick boxes in forthcoming censuses ? - please see - Cornish demand 2011 Census tick box and Cornish ethnicity data from the 2001 Census 217.134.69.116 23:15, 30 January 2007 (UTC)
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- In answer to the above, I believe that the 37,000 who identified as Cornish, first had to deny being British by crossing out the British option, then write in Cornish in the "others" box. You are correct that the ONS would have merely re-categorised these people as "White British" in the published Census figures.217.134.64.161 22:33, 31 January 2007 (UTC)
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[edit] Name
I'm gonna rename this article to "Demographics of England". I think it's better so that we wont have to limit the info to 2001 Census...Lukas19 22:43, 6 February 2007 (UTC)
