Browsing JSSISI: 1937 to 1942, Vol. XVI, Sessions 91st to 95th by Title
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(1) The Statistical Abstract; (2) the 24th session of the International Institute of Statistics
(Statistical and Social Inquiry Society of Ireland, 1939)Some remarks may perhaps be expected in explanation of the two-fold title of my inaugural address. A consideration of the Statistical Abstract, which is a compendium not only of statistics published by the ... -
An analysis giving a comparison of national expenditure, sources of revenue, and the debt, for the years 1929/30 and 1939/40
(Statistical and Social Inquiry Society of Ireland, 1941)The Census of Population for 1936 discloses a transfer of employment from Agriculture to Industry, and an increase in the number of those engaged in subsidiary activities required to meet the increased commercial activity, ... -
An analysis of the legislation, published accounts and operating statistics of the Great Southern Railways Co., 1924-1937
(Statistical and Social Inquiry Society of Ireland, 1938)The unsatisfactory financial position of the railways lying wholly within the Saorstat forced the Government to take measures for their radical reorganisation and more effective business control. This paper will review ... -
Broadcast discussion on ?unemployment?
(Statistical and Social Inquiry Society of Ireland, 1940)The first discussion by members of the Society, by way of broadcast, was on the population problem; the subject for this evening is "Unemployment." There is no necessity for me to enlarge on all that this single word ... -
Calendar reform
(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 ... -
The capitalisation of Irish agriculture
(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 ... -
The changing distribution of population in Donegal, with special reference to the congested areas
(Statistical and Social Inquiry Society of Ireland, 1941)The effects of movement from the area of emigration may be hidden for a time. In many parts of Ireland there is an unusually large proportion of old people in the population, probably partly supported by their sons and ... -
The changing distribution of population in Kerry and West Cork
(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 ... -
Desirable ameliorations of the law
(Statistical and Social Inquiry Society of Ireland, 1940)Those that call for respect for the law simply because it is the law and not because it expresses the conscience and will of the people and is adequate for modern requirements will call in vain?at all events, in Ireland. ... -
The economic and social organisation of National Socialist Germany
(Statistical and Social Inquiry Society of Ireland, 1938)At the outset of this paper I desire to make it clear that I make no claim to originality in so far as the matter contained in it is concerned. In its preparation I have proceeded along the lines which you, as statisticians, ... -
Examination of the sickness experience for the year 1935 of persons insured under the National Health Insurance Acts
(Statistical and Social Inquiry Society of Ireland, 1939)There are approximately 500,000 persons in the State engaged in gainful occupation either as manual workers or as clerical workers with a rate of remuneration not exceeding #250 per annum. This bulk may be taken as a ... -
Financial results on 93 mixed dairy farms in 1938-'39
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Financial results on sixty-one West Cork farms in 1940-'41
(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, ... -
Future possibilities of Irish agriculture
(Statistical and Social Inquiry Society of Ireland, 1938)In a country lacking any considerable resources of raw material, with but a limited export trade in industrial products, but having a fertile soil and favourable climate, it is to increased production on the land that ... -
The human factor in industry
(Statistical and Social Inquiry Society of Ireland, 1941)I do ask you to interpret industry in its widest sense as covering not merely factories and organised business but human relations in all professions and individual occupations. Almost all the real difficulties of life ... -
The impact of the war upon Irish economy
(Statistical and Social Inquiry Society of Ireland, 1940)The European war has given rise to many speculations, generally vague but almost always gloomy, upon its probable effects on Irish economic life. It is certain that the war has already brought about changes in our trade; ... -
Investigation into the incidence of mental deficiency amongst Dublin school children
(Statistical and Social Inquiry Society of Ireland, 1940)In this paper I propose giving an account of an investigation into mental defect amongst Dublin children. This forms part of a larger investigation, not yet completed, into the incidence of mental defect and epilepsy ... -
Irish population prospects considered from the viewpoint of reproduction rates
(Statistical and Social Inquiry Society of Ireland, 1941)Estimates of future population render explicit the assumption with regard to population statistics, which is implicit in the use of most current statistics, that the tendencies indicated are applicable now and in the ... -
Irish regional life tables
(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 ... -
Migration movements and the distribution of population in Eire
(Statistical and Social Inquiry Society of Ireland, 1939)The present paper deals only with the Twenty-Six Counties (forming Eire) and the exclusion of Northern Ireland makes the picture given in some ways incomplete. This limitation may not be such a serious defect, for the ...
