Browsing Archive JSSISI: 1847- Complete Collection by Title

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    • Safeguarding trust in Irish Official Statistics: A code of practice for the Irish statistical system 

      Dalton, Padraig (Statistical and Social Inquiry Society of Ireland, 2014)
      For official statistics to be of value they must be trusted. Achieving and maintaining trust requires that statistics are produced in an objective, transparent and independent manner. In many countries codes of practice ...

    • Salmon fisheries in Ireland and the report of the Irish Inland Fisheries Commission 

      Conner, H. D. (Statistical and Social Inquiry Society of Ireland, 1906)
      The object of this paper is to bring before this Society the importance of the salmon fishery to the country districts of Ireland, to give an outline of the conditions essential to insure its prosperity, and to summarize ...

    • The sampling referendum in the service of popular government 

      Hackett, Felix E. (Statistical and Social Inquiry Society of Ireland, 1941)
      The attitude which may be taken towards the method of sampling referenda as a measure of public opinion will depend mainly on two factors; the trust reposed on the technique of scientific sampling and the degree of ...

    • Schemes for the rehabilitation of youth in certain countries, with special reference to labour service 

      Beere, Thekla J. (Statistical and Social Inquiry Society of Ireland, 1939)
      Unemployment among young persons is one of the most acute and disturbing problems of this generation. It is difficult to assess its exact magnitude either in this or in other countries, but the International Labour ...

    • School attendance in Ireland 

      Ryan, Frederick W. (Statistical and Social Inquiry Society of Ireland, 1912)
      In this paper your attention is drawn to the Irish Education Act of 1892, upon the efficient working of which must positively depend?as I hope to confirm by figures?the general success of Irish Elementary Education as ...

    • Schooling returns, schooling decisions and educational finance 

      Harmon, Colm (Statistical and Social Inquiry Society of Ireland, 2002)
      Given the presence of significant returns to education, it would seem logical to query why individuals choose to leave school early. This paper examines the evidence on this issue, dealing with both methodological and ...

    • Scottish Private Bill Legislation in working 

      Samuels, Arthur W. (Statistical and Social Inquiry Society of Ireland, 1906)
      Were it not for the fact that a Private Legislation Reform Bill for Wales, passed unanimously on the 25th March, 1904 its second reading in the House of Commons, and that not a single Irish Member brought forward the ...

    • Second tier child income support: the case for innovation 

      Sweeney, John (Statistical and Social Inquiry Society of Ireland, 2008)
      Total and per child spending on child income supports are at high levels, and so are child poverty and the proportion of children being reared in jobless households. While the role of child income supports in alleviating ...

    • Sensible tax policies in open economies 

      Hines, James R. (Statistical and Social Inquiry Society of Ireland, 2004)
      This paper evaluates the design and the desirability of business taxes in small open economies, in light of evidence of the impact of taxation on the activities of multinational firms. The high degree of international ...

    • Seventy Years of Personal Disposable Income and Consumption in Ireland 

      Stuart, Rebecca (SSISI, 2017)
      This paper compiles annual data on personal consumption and personal disposable income for Ireland over the period 1944 to 2014 and goes on to estimate consumption functions. Having established that the series are cointegrated, ...

    • Short-term economic forecasting 

      Menton, Brendan (Statistical and Social Inquiry Society of Ireland, 1965)
      The main purpose of short-term economic forecasting is to try to assess prospective economic conditions as a guide to the policy required to maintain economic activity at the liighest sustainable level. The period of ...

    • Should the Local Government Acts be extended to Ireland? 

      Hancock, John (Statistical and Social Inquiry Society of Ireland, 1869)
      In September, 1867, at the request of the Council of the National Association for the Promotion of Social Science, I read a paper at the Belfast Congress in answer to the question, " Should the Local Government Acts be ...

    • The significance of veterinary science in the national economy 

      Harnett, P. (Statistical and Social Inquiry Society of Ireland, 1956)
      I propose to go into the economic significance of veterinary science in the Republic of Ireland and to relate the evidence to the year 1954. The most significant figures I have arrived at are derived from the returns on ...

    • Sixty-sixth session 1912/1913 

      Unknown author (Statistical and Social Inquiry Society of Ireland, 1913)

    • The social and moral elevation of our working classes 

      Haughton, James (Dublin Statistical Society, 1857)
      I have indicated some means whereby the social and moral elevation of our working classes may be secured to an extent hitherto unknown among us; and I conclude by the expression of my full belief that all our efforts ...

    • Social expenditure and the social accounts of the European Economic Community 

      Broderick, J. B. (Statistical and Social Inquiry Society of Ireland, 1975)
      Certain summary information relating to the Social Accounts of the EEC was published in "Report of the Development of the Social Situation in the Communities in 1974". The Statistical Office of the EEC will publish the ...

    • The social geography of Belfast 

      Jones, Emrys (Statistical and Social Inquiry Society of Ireland, 1954)
      The main task of the social geographer is to analyse the relationship between social groups and their environment and to identify the regional differentiation of such relationships. In a town or city the relationships ...

    • The social income of Eire, 1938-40 

      Duncan, G. A. (Statistical and Social Inquiry Society of Ireland, 1941)
      A paper read before the Society on Thursday, 26th October, 1939 carried the investigation up to 1937, with provisional estimates for 1938 and conjectures for 1939. Of the seven heads into which monetary income was there ...

    • The social income of the Irish Free State, 1926-38 

      Duncan, G. A. (Statistical and Social Inquiry Society of Ireland, 1940)
      In the Economic Journal of March, 1933, Dr. T. J. Kiernan published an estimate of the national income of the Irish Free State for the year 1926, and followed it up with a paper, read before this Society in June, 1933, ...

    • Social problems and the war 

      Lawson, William (Statistical and Social Inquiry Society of Ireland, 1917)
      And as agriculture strikes more deeply at the roots of human life than any mere trade, so agricultural science possesses a human interest and dignity that marks it off sharply from any branch of technology; it is, indeed, ...