Browsing Archive JSSISI: 1847- Complete Collection by Title
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A half century of fertiliser and lime use in Ireland
(Statistical and Social Inquiry Society of Ireland, 1957)The importance of a satisfactory supply of nutrient elements and lime, in soils, is now universally recognised as one of the major factors in crop production. When a crop, either tillage or pasture, is harvested from a ... -
Has Fuel Poverty Changed and How Should Policy Respond? Charting Fuel Poverty in Ireland from 1987 to 2015
(2021)This paper charts the incidence of fuel poverty in Ireland through the period 1987-2015 under alternative household survey-based metrics. The fuel poor population is decomposed by socioeconomic group to better understand ... -
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 ... -
HealthStat: measuring the performance of the Irish public health service
(Statistical and Social Inquiry Society of Ireland, 2009)HealthStat is a tool for measuring the performance of the Irish public health service. It consists of a data collection process, the production of performance statistics in graphical dashboard format and a monthly ... -
High Frequency Model of the COVID-19 Pandemic in Ireland and its Trading Partners During 2020
(Statistical and Social Inquiry Society of Ireland, 2021)The COVID-19 pandemic represents a complex challenge to policymakers from both a public health and economic perspective. It has caused a severe economic shock to both the Irish and global economy with shutdown measures ... -
Higher education participation in Northern Ireland
(Statistical and Social Inquiry Society of Ireland, 1999)This paper seeks to provide an overview of higher education participation in Northern Ireland. The aims are to set out quantitatively, the main dimensions of participation located within a comparative United Kingdom (UK) ... -
Hill land utilisation in Ulster
(Statistical and Social Inquiry Society of Ireland, 1956)This paper examines the use of hill land in Ulster at the present time, with particular emphasis on the improvements being undertaken to reduce the gap between present and potential productivity and with consideration of ... -
Historical Memoirs with portraits; [compiled] by S. Shannon Millin
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History and development of Irish population censuses
(Statistical and Social Inquiry Society of Ireland, 1992)This year, 1991, was a Census year and marked one hundred and fifty years since the "Great Population Census" of 1841 was taken. I thought an appropriate way to remember that historic event would be to look briefly at ... -
The history of Belfast shipbuilding
(Statistical and Social Inquiry Society of Ireland, 1912)It is always interesting, and usually difficult, to explain why a great industry has taken root and prospered in one locality rather than in another. But in the case of the Belfast shipbuilding industry the explanation ... -
History of Queen’s College, Galway; University College Galway; and NUI Galway in Four Contrasting Images
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Homestead laws
(Statistical and Social Inquiry Society of Ireland, 1888)The present paper aims at giving a concise account of the origin and development of the Homestead Laws of the United States, with notices of similar legislation to be found elsewhere. It next considers the practical ... -
Housing
(Statistical and Social Inquiry Society of Ireland, 1915)In selecting as the title of my paper the one word "Housing" I have done so with the object of conveying at the outset that my purpose is to bring before the Society for its consideration in a general way the subject ... -
Housing equity withdrawal, property bubbles and consumption
(Statistical and Social Inquiry Society of Ireland, 2012)At the peak of the recent property boom, housing equity withdrawal, or ?top-up" loans, accounted for around one-third of residential mortgage loans issued. This collateral-based lending was typically issued at a significant ... -
Housing for the future: a case for change
(Statistical and Social Inquiry Society of Ireland, 2005)There is evidence to suggest that housing over recent decades has not received the attention it deserves from policy makers. Policy can at best be described as ad hoc and reactive, based on a general assumption that ... -
Housing in Dublin: report of Committee on Control and Improvement of Tenement Houses
(Statistical and Social Inquiry Society of Ireland, 1914)The improvement of the Housing Conditions of the working classes in Dublin, dealt with in the Report of the Departmental Committee of the Local Government Board for Ireland, can be effected in two ways - 1) improving ... -
Housing in Ireland: philosophy, affordability and access
(Statistical and Social Inquiry Society of Ireland, 2007)This paper argues that Ireland?s housing problems stem in part from a particular philosophical orientation which supports the ?commodification? of housing and gives strong encouragement to private market provision of housing ... -
The housing of the people of Ireland during the period 1841-1901
(Statistical and Social Inquiry Society of Ireland, 1906)I purpose this evening presenting to the Society a short review of the results of the inquiries made at each successive decennial Census from 1841, into the class of Houses in Ireland, and the accommodation afforded by ...