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  • Local government in Northern Ireland: areas, functions and finance 

    Lawrence, R. J. (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 

    Agnew, John A. (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 

    Froggatt, P. (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 

    Leser, C. E. V. (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 

    Corley, T. A. B. (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 

    Leser, C. E. V. (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. ...
  • Recent demographic developments in Ireland 

    Leser, C. E. V. (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 

    Sexton, J. J. (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 

    Menton, Brendan (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 

    Reynolds, D. J. (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 

    Attwood, E. A. (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 

    Bristow, J. A. (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 ...
  • A study of the social background of students in University College Dublin 

    Nevin, Monica (Statistical and Social Inquiry Society of Ireland, 1967)
    This paper forms part of a study undertaken to ascertain the social background of the students in the Irish universities, to assess the factors which determine their entry to the university and the influences at work in ...
  • Survey of sources of monetary supply in Ireland 

    Oslizlok, J. S. (Statistical and Social Inquiry Society of Ireland, 1963)
    Judging by developments in other countries the survey of changes in the supply of money is the first step in the buildingup of financial accounts. The purpose of this paper is to suggest a beginning in that direction. ...
  • Towards an input-output decision model for Ireland 

    Geary, R. C. (Statistical and Social Inquiry Society of Ireland, 1964)
    As will appear, the experiments, all based on Irish data, have been numerous, so I shall dispense as much as possible with preamble and define decision models as the models which decision model makers make, adapting the ...
  • Trends in agricultural development in Europe and Ireland 

    Attwood, E. A. (Statistical and Social Inquiry Society of Ireland, 1963)
    The most widely accepted economic argument in favour of Irish membership of an enlarged European Economic Community is that it will lead to a big increase in our earnings from the export of agricultural products. This, ...