Browsing Archive JSSISI: 1847- Complete Collection by Title

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    • 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 ...

    • Notes of a visit to some church lands, where tenants have bought their holdings, and also to other church lands where tenants have not yet bought their holding 

      Shaw Lefevre, George (Statistical and Social Inquiry Society of Ireland, 1878)
      It has been suggested to me by Dr. Hancock that it may not be without value to the Statistical Society, that I should put on record the notes of a visit which I have paid during my short stay in Ireland to two of the ...

    • Notes on some continental prisons 

      MacDonnell, Hercules (Statistical and Social Inquiry Society of Ireland, 1886)
      In bringing before this society the subject of prisons, I feel that no apology is required. It is one well suited for full and serious consideration before a society founded for the purpose of discussing social questions. ...

    • Notes on the French system of railways 

      McDonnell, Alexander (Statistical and Social Inquiry Society of Ireland, 1867)
      At the present time, when there is a good deal of interest taken in the question of railways, it appears to me that a short account of the French railway system may be interesting.

    • Notes on the National Economic Councils of Germany and France 

      Mortished, R. J. P. (Statistical and Social Inquiry Society of Ireland, 1929)
      The Saorstat needs at least as much as any other State an organization designed to mobilize all available competences in the service of the State, to make a wide and penetrating review of our economic position and ...

    • Notes on the prices of Irish agricultural produce illustrated by diagrams 

      Barrington, Richard M. (Statistical and Social Inquiry Society of Ireland, 1893)
      The paper on this subject I had the honour of reading before the Society, in December, 1886, was based on statistics derived from private sources. The following notes and diagrams are, on the other hand, compiled and ...

    • Notes on the Societe Generale de Credit Mobilier 

      Walsh, Richard Hussey (Dublin Statistical Society, 1856)
      The dividends of the Societe Generale de Credit Mobilier for the past year have been at the rate of 40 per cent; and its 500-franc shares sold for 1980 francs each, or at a premium of nearly 300 per cent. How is this to ...

    • Notes on the statistics of waste lands in Ireland 

      Grimshaw, Thomas Wrigley (Statistical and Social Inquiry Society of Ireland, 1884)
      In consequence of many published statements by public speakers, newspaper writers, essayists, and writers in reviews, with reference to the relative amount of Irish land which is out of use, I have thought it advisable to ...

    • Notice of some points in Irish agricultural statistics 

      Connolly, James (Statistical and Social Inquiry Society of Ireland, 1879)
      I now wish to make a brief communication of a most important and interesting discovery, if I may so call it, which I think I have made with regard to agricultural statistics. In poring over Thorn's article on the latter, ...

    • Notice of the books and pamphlets bequeathed by Sir Thomas Larcom to the society 

      Campbell, J. H. M. (Statistical and Social Inquiry Society of Ireland, 1881)
      My object in this paper is to bring before your notice the bequest of books and pamphlets which this Society has recently received under the will of the late Major-General the Right Hon. Sir Thomas Larcom. The collection ...

    • A notice of the theory "that there is no hope for a nation which lives on potatoes" 

      Hancock, W. Neilson (Statistical and Social Inquiry Society of Ireland, 1849)
      The theory "that there is no hope for a nation which lives on potatoes," has been put forward by Sir C. E. Trevelyan, in his recent work, called "The Irish Crisis," as if it were an established doctrine of political ...

    • The nurse and the state 

      Falkiner, Ninian M. (Statistical and Social Inquiry Society of Ireland, 1920)
      The status and the education of the trained nurse is a subject that demands public attention: it is, therefore, appropriate that the Statistical and Social Inquiry Society of Ireland should have full particulars regarding ...

    • Nutritional standards of some working-class families in Dublin, 1943 

      Clancy Gore, Charles (Statistical and Social Inquiry Society of Ireland, 1944)
      This is an enquiry into the living conditions of a hundred families living on a new housing estate in Dublin. It is an endeavour to discover the extent and degree of poverty, and to correlate the degree of good or ...