Browsing JSSISI: 1962 to 1968, Vol. XXI, Sessions 116th to 121st by Title
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Factors relevant to planning an economic forestry policy
(Statistical and Social Inquiry Society of Ireland, 1964)A major consideration in overall economic planning must be the extent to which a resource which can be provided locally is being brought into the country. In Ireland there is a virtual absence of mineral resources but ... -
Farm land mobility and adjustments in farming in Northern Ireland
(Statistical and Social Inquiry Society of Ireland, 1965)This paper is about the "mobility" of land as a factor of production in Northern Ireland agriculture. Farm land mobility in the title means all forms of change of control of the use of land within the farm sector in ... -
The genetic improvement of the Irish cattle population
(Statistical and Social Inquiry Society of Ireland, 1966)The dominant position of the cattle industry in the national economy does not need to be stressed. The 1.5 million cows and 14,000 bulls in the country and their progeny are both the raw material for much of the output of ... -
Health services - a critical appraisal
(Statistical and Social Inquiry Society of Ireland, 1963)The designing of a health service involves exercises in economics and administration as well as in medicine and the relation between all three is so intimate that the best results can only be obtained if the planners ... -
Local government in Northern Ireland: areas, functions and finance
(Statistical and Social Inquiry Society of Ireland, 1966)The main objects of this paper are to show that local government in Northern Ireland needs to be reorganised, and to suggest some possible reforms. I begin by noting the chief landmarks in the evolution of Irish local ... -
Manpower policy
(Statistical and Social Inquiry Society of Ireland, 1968)There are a number of special features affecting the development of manpower policy in Ireland. The main ones are the levels of unemployment, underemployment and emigration and the ratio of dependents to workers. The ... -
One-day absence in industry
(Statistical and Social Inquiry Society of Ireland, 1965)Much has been written about absence from work taken in spells of three days or more, little about spells of one or two days?possibly because they do not ordinarily count for National Insurance benefit Nevertheless, this ... -
The pattern of personal expenditure in Ireland
(Statistical and Social Inquiry Society of Ireland, 1964)The object of the present paper is to study the distribution of personal expenditure in Ireland over a number of commodity groups, to analyse the changes that have recently taken place, and to consider the implications for ... -
The personal wealth of Northern Ireland 1920-1960
(Statistical and Social Inquiry Society of Ireland, 1963)The main object of this paper is to build up estimates of personal wealth in Northern Ireland, in order to chart the material progress of its inhabitants during the past forty years. To this end, wherever possible, ... -
Problems of industrialisation in developing countries
(Statistical and Social Inquiry Society of Ireland, 1968)For a country like Ireland, it seems reasonable to surmise that its economy has some features in common with industralising countries in other continents rather than with the industrially most advanced European countries. ... -
Proceedings of the Statistical and Social Inquiry Society of Ireland: one hundred and seventeenth session -1963/64
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Proceedings of the Statistical and Social Inquiry Society of Ireland: one hundred and sixteenth session -1962/63
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Proceedings of the Statistical and Social Inquiry Society of Ireland: one hundred and twentieth session -1966/67
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Proceedings of the Statistical and Social Inquiry Society of Ireland: one hundred and twenty first session -1967/68
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Recent demographic developments in Ireland
(Statistical and Social Inquiry Society of Ireland, 1965)Seen from the demographic point of view, Ireland is well known to possess a number of unusual features m comparison with other countries of the Western world. The effect on natural population increase of a high average ... -
Road freight transport in Ireland
(Statistical and Social Inquiry Society of Ireland, 1967)This paper describes a Sample Survey of Road Freight Transport which was carried out by the Central Statistics Office during 1964. The main objective of the survey was to provide estimates, at the national level, of such ... -
Short-term economic forecasting
(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 ... -
Some aspects of inland transport
(Statistical and Social Inquiry Society of Ireland, 1963)Tonight I propose to deal with two subjects which seem to be too large and awkward to fit into a general study of transport yet not sufficiently large and lacking sufficient data to justify separate studies. Since they ... -
Some economic aspects of land use policy in Ireland
(Statistical and Social Inquiry Society of Ireland, 1965)This paper sets out to examine the current trends in the pattern of land use, to discuss the factors which must be considered m any delineation of the optimum utilisation of the land m the country, and finally to ... -
State enterprise and economic planning in the Irish Republic
(Statistical and Social Inquiry Society of Ireland, 1965)The establishment of public enterprise in the Republic owes little to ideology, except perhaps before the war when the ideal of national selfsufficiency played some part in the decision to set up such bodies as the Irish ...
