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  • The need for instruction on the duty of the individual to the community 

    Brown, Sparkhall (Statistical and Social Inquiry Society of Ireland, 1928)
    The historian, who is in the happy position of being wise after the event, can generally put his finger on the particular internal change or changes which led to the collapse of the various ancient communities, and, with ...

  • The need for technical education - with special reference to Saorstat Eireann 

    Clampett, G.J.T. (Statistical and Social Inquiry Society of Ireland, 1929)
    Technical Education should offer to all citizens, especially to the young citizens, facilities to obtain instruction in the theory, and to some extent, the practice of whatever trade or calling they intend to adopt or ...

  • Neglected children and neglectful parents 

    Daly, E.D. (Statistical and Social Inquiry Society of Ireland, 1898)
    It seems to me quite impossible for those who do not, or who cannot, keep out of sight of the poorer classes, to resist the sad importunity with which the facts of life in our back streets and tenements for ever plead ...

  • The NESC study 

    O'Donnell, Rory, Cahill, Noel, (Statistical and Social Inquiry Society of Ireland, 2005)
    This paper presents the key findings from a 2004 NESC study on the Irish housing system, Housing in Ireland: Performance and Policy. The paper begins by identifying the anxieties and concerns people have about housing. ...

  • A new fiscal framework for Ireland 

    Lane, Philip R. (Statistical and Social Inquiry Society of Ireland, 2010)
    Pro-cyclicality in Irish fiscal policy has contributed to macroeconomic volatility over recent decades. Accordingly, this paper seeks to identify institutional mechanisms that can improve the performance of fiscal policy ...

  • The new Irish banking statistics : a review of conceptual issues and monetary agregates 

    McEvoy, Noel J. (Statistical and Social Inquiry Society of Ireland, 1984)
    New series of monthly banking statistics were included in the Central Bank of Ireland, Annual Report, Spring 1983. The Bank marked the occasion with a background explanatory article entitled "New Banking Statistics and ...

  • The new local bodies and the new Department of Agriculture and Technical Education and the development of the resources of Ireland 

    Dawson, Charles (Statistical and Social Inquiry Society of Ireland, 1900)
    Two classes of bodies have been lately created by the present Government. One class by the Local Government Act of 1898, and the other by the Act which established the Department of Agriculture and Technical Instruction ...

  • New methods for offenders 

    Molony, Thomas F., Sir (Statistical and Social Inquiry Society of Ireland, 1940)
    When the Society did me the honour of electing me President 20 years ago I chose as the subject of my address "The Prevention and Punishment of Crime." I pointed out that the four great methods of preventing crime were ...

  • Northern Ireland and EEC membership - an economic perspective 

    McGurnaghan, Michael (Statistical and Social Inquiry Society of Ireland, 1984)
    The question to be asked about the impact of EEC membership for Northern Ireland is: how has a small peripheral regional economy, with an already difficult economic problem and having the lowest income level nationally and ...

  • The Northern Ireland census of population and housing: looking back and looking forward 

    Caven, Norman; Evans, Trevor; Beatty, Robert (Statistical and Social Inquiry Society of Ireland, 1998)
    A census of population and housing, even in a country as small as Northern Ireland, is a major undertaking and much time, effort and resources are devoted to it. At a national level it is the largest single statistical ...

  • Northern Ireland Composite Economic Index: Development of a quarterly output measure for NI 

    Gillan, James; Johnston, Owen; Ganley, Chris (Statistical and Social Inquiry Society of Ireland, 2013)
    This paper presents the methodology and results of an experimental Composite Economic Index developed by the Northern Ireland Statistics and Research Agency (NISRA). The aim of the Index is to provide a short term measure ...

  • The Northern Ireland Economy: Problems and Prospects 

    Fitzgerald, John; Morgenroth, Edgar L.W. (Statistical and Social Inquiry Society of Ireland, 2020)
    This paper considers the lacklustre performance of the Northern Ireland economy in recent decades, in particular the very low productivity growth. The low level of human capital and the continued low levels of investment, ...

  • The Northern Ireland geographic information system 

    Brand, M.J.D. (Statistical and Social Inquiry Society of Ireland, 1991)
    The aim of this short paper is to give an introduction to and an overview of the current state of GIS in Northern Ireland. The paper starts with an attempt to give a definition of GIS; this is followed by an overview of ...

  • The Northern Ireland housing trust 

    O'Brien, Lucius (Sir) (Statistical and Social Inquiry Society of Ireland, 1953)
    The area of Northern Ireland is 5,238 square miles and, of the population of 1,370,000, one-third live in Belfast. Londonderry is the next largest centre with 50,000 inhabitants, and there is then a drop to between ten ...

  • Northern Ireland Multiple Deprivation Measures 2017 

    IJpelaar, Jos; Power, Tracy; Green, Brian (Statistical and Social Inquiry Society of Ireland, 2019)
    Spatial relative deprivation measures have been developed in Northern Ireland since the 1970s. Most recently, the Northern Ireland Multiple Deprivation Measures 2017 was released last year. Whilst the suite was an update ...

  • The Northern Ireland regional econometric model 

    Jefferson, Clifford W. (Statistical and Social Inquiry Society of Ireland, 1982)
    Macroeconometric modelling of regional economies is in its infancy. While national models have been in widespread use in industrialised countries for many years, it is only comparatively recently that econometric models ...

  • The Northern Ireland trade union movement 

    Bleakley, D. W. (Statistical and Social Inquiry Society of Ireland, 1954)
    Twenty-eight years ago, this Society listened to a paper on Irish trade unionism. Then, the speaker outlined a movement that was trying to adjust itself to vital political changes that had taken place in the life of the ...

  • Note on the operations of some Swiss land banks 

    O'Brien, Murrough (Statistical and Social Inquiry Society of Ireland, 1888)
    IN connection with two papers published in this Journal on Continental Land Banks, the editors permit me to add a note as to the operations of some of these banks for the year 1887.

  • Note on the reduction of the rate of interest since 1870: with some remarks as to the probable amount of encumbrances on Irish land, and the possible fund available for their payment 

    Erck, Wentworth (Statistical and Social Inquiry Society of Ireland, 1889)
    It is evident that capital invested either in mortgage, or in purchase, of land cannot expect to be exempt from the fate of capital invested in other securities. This fate is a steady, progressive, and of late rapid ...

  • Notes as to proceedings of the State Charities' Aid Association of New York 

    Hancock, W. Neilson (Statistical and Social Inquiry Society of Ireland, 1876)
    The Fourth Annual Report of the State Charities' Aid Association of New York, bearing date 1st March, 1876, has been received, and it contains information on points that have interested this Society. One object of the ...