Browsing JSSISI: 1962 to 1968, Vol. XXI, Sessions 116th to 121st by Title
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The aged in three western societies
(Statistical and Social Inquiry Society of Ireland, 1966)'A comparative social survey on living conditions and behaviour of the aged in Denmark, Great Britain and U.S.A.'- subtitle. Through the last fifteen years important new territory has been conquered in social gerontology ... -
Agricultural developments in Ireland, north and south
(Statistical and Social Inquiry Society of Ireland, 1967)The agreement on the reduction of the trade barriers between the United Kingdom and the Republic of Ireland has given rise to hopes of a new impetus to the development of Irish agriculture. Economic history is not ... -
Aircraft selection - with particular reference to the Aer Lingus selection of the BAC one - eleven
(Statistical and Social Inquiry Society of Ireland, 1965)Conditions in the technical development of the aeroplane at the present time, especially the absence of any important improvements in design or in motive power and the uncertainty about the prospects for supersonic transport, ... -
An analysis of human fertility in Northern Ireland
(Statistical and Social Inquiry Society of Ireland, 1963)There has never been a special inquiry into the population of Northern Ireland such as that of the Royal Commission on Population (1946) in Great Britain. In fact, apart from three questions on fertility in the 1911 ... -
Capital in Irish industry
(Statistical and Social Inquiry Society of Ireland, 1963)This paper presents the results of a first attempt to provide a comprehensive picture of the capital structure of industry in Ireland Up to the present time, there has been no reliable information on such matters as the ... -
Collective bargaining and industrial disputes in Ireland
(Statistical and Social Inquiry Society of Ireland, 1967)This paper falls into three main sections. The first section contains a general description of the legislative and institutional framework of the industrial relations system. The second section concerns collective ... -
An econometric method of forecasting the demand for food in Ireland in 1970
(Statistical and Social Inquiry Society of Ireland, 1966)In the present decade, there are two major factors that can be expected to affect the demand for food in Ireland; the first is the country's becoming part of the European Economic Community, the second is the attainment ... -
Economic studies in Northern Ireland labour statistics
(Statistical and Social Inquiry Society of Ireland, 1964)This paper deals with three topics all related to Northern Ireland. The first part is devoted to an analysis of the difference in weekly earnings between Great Britain and Northern Ireland for 22 minimum list headings. ... -
The economics of Irish forestry
(Statistical and Social Inquiry Society of Ireland, 1964)In reviewing the development of State Forestry in Ireland with particular regard to its economic implications, I propose to deal successively with three main periods of development?-1908-1922 and 1922-1958?which between ... -
An examination of the Northern Irish sea fishing industry
(Statistical and Social Inquiry Society of Ireland, 1968)The Northern Irish sea fishing industry is of the in-shore type, the boats seldom being absent from port for more than eighteen or twenty hours at a time. By almost any standard these boats are up to date and well ... -
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. ...
