Recent Submissions

  • A food and nutritional surveillance system for Ireland 

    Kelly, A.; Kevany, J. (Statistical and Social Inquiry Society of Ireland, 1981)
    The need for a national food and nutrition policy is increasingly recognised by governments of developed as well as developing societies. Such policies represent an agreed strategy for the most efficient use of national ...
  • Company tax - effective tax rates on profits 

    Stewart, J. C. (Statistical and Social Inquiry Society of Ireland, 1981)
    Considerable controversy surrounds the measurement of profit in company accounts. Continuous inflation has underlined some of the problems involved. Current accounting practice in the United Kingdom and Ireland also obscures ...
  • The measurement of market concentration in Irish banking 

    Kinsella, R. P. (Statistical and Social Inquiry Society of Ireland, 1981)
    This paper analyses the market structure of Irish banking, with particular reference to market concentration. While it is generally recognised that the Irish banking system is relatively highly concentrated there have been ...
  • The flow of funds 1972-1977 

    Honohan, Patrick; Dunne, John (Statistical and Social Inquiry Society of Ireland, 1982)
    Corresponding to the existence of financial assets there is the phenomenon of saving and dissaving, of financial surpluses and deficits. We may say that whenever an economic agent spends, over a certain period, more than ...
  • Profit sharing for Ireland? 

    Geary, R. C.; Dempsey, M. (Statistical and Social Inquiry Society of Ireland, 1982)
    Profit sharing (PS) may be defined as an agreement between an employer and workers to pay a share of the profits or wealth created by the organisation, in addition to wages and direct incentives. It is a recognition of the ...
  • A concept of industrial development in the 1980s 

    White, Padraic A. (Statistical and Social Inquiry Society of Ireland, 1983)
    I welcome the opportunity to speak under the auspices of such a distinguished forum as the Statistical & Social Inquiry Society of Ireland. My first introduction to the Society was through the well thumbed volumes of its ...
  • Estimating quarterly national accounts 

    O'Reilly, Liam (Statistical and Social Inquiry Society of Ireland, 1982)
    This paper contains estimates of quarterly national accounts for Ireland for the period 1963 to 1977. It summarises the work in this area so far completed in the Research Department in the Central Bank of Ireland. In the ...
  • Road freight transport in Ireland, 1980 

    Geoghegan, Brian; Brady, G. (Statistical and Social Inquiry Society of Ireland, 1983)
    In the last quarter of 1979 a continuous sample survey of road freight transport activity was initiated by the CSO. This paper examines the methodology of the survey and provides an analysis of some of the results for 1980, ...