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  • Financial results on sixty-one West Cork farms in 1940-'41 

    Murphy, M. (Statistical and Social Inquiry Society of Ireland, 1942)
    In this paper a summary is given of the financial results achieved on 61 farms in a West Cork creamery district (about nine miles west of Clonakilty), during the year ended 30th April, 1941. In presenting the summary, ...
  • The changing distribution of population in Kerry and West Cork 

    Freeman, T. W. (Statistical and Social Inquiry Society of Ireland, 1942)
    Many of the picturesque areas in the peninsulas known to tourists have lost forty per cent or more of their 1891 population. The loss is so striking that a very small area would remain as a Congested District if re-assessed ...
  • Calendar reform 

    Eason, E.K. (Statistical and Social Inquiry Society of Ireland, 1942)
    The subject of calendar reform became practical politics about twenty years ago, certainly when the League of Nations' Committee sat in the years 1923-1926. From that time till 1937 two forms of calendar were in the ...
  • Irish regional life tables 

    Barry, Colm A. (Statistical and Social Inquiry Society of Ireland, 1942)
    There are three recognised measures of the mortality of a population, known as the crude death-rate, the standardised death-rate and the life table death-rate. Comparisons of the crude death-rate as between one people ...
  • The capitalisation of Irish agriculture 

    Johnston, Joseph (Statistical and Social Inquiry Society of Ireland, 1942)
    The value of a farm from a strictly agricultural point of view is a capitalisation of the income which a purchaser, whose principal occupation is farming, might hope to make in virtue of his ownership as such. In making ...

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