Browsing JSSISI: 1930 to 1937, Vol. XV, Sessions 84th to 90th by Title
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The growth of electricity supply and its relations to civilisation
(Statistical and Social Inquiry Society of Ireland, 1933)I make no apology for the inaccuracies and discrepancies found in the statistics presented later on; prolonged research and much correspondence would have been necessary to produce statistics on an absolutely comparative ... -
Income tax statistics
(Statistical and Social Inquiry Society of Ireland, 1935)In reading this paper I realise that I have to try to make it interesting not only to those who are already well informed on the Income Tax code, but also to those who are possibly not; I have, moreover, to consider not ... -
Irish Free State railway accounts
(Statistical and Social Inquiry Society of Ireland, 1936)I propose in this short paper, which has been rather hurriedly prepared, to confine myself to the Financial Accounts of the Great Southern Railways and the Great Northern Railway for the years 1929, 1934 and 1935. -
Legal aid for poor persons
(Statistical and Social Inquiry Society of Ireland, 1931)At the annual meeting of the English Bar held on the 11th February, 1928, a discussion arose on the question of legal aid to poor persons, and the Attorney-General, Sir Douglas Hogg (now Lord Hailsham) said, in winding ... -
The minimum wage
(Statistical and Social Inquiry Society of Ireland, 1934)There are many types of minima, which are the outcome of personal negotiations or collective bargaining between employers and employees, and in which training, general skill, special aptitude, intellectual ability, ... -
Monetary policy and the Depression
(Statistical and Social Inquiry Society of Ireland, 1934)The economic mechanism is obviously out of gear, and it is an easy solution of the trouble to blame the lubricant. Before, however, arriving at a hasty conclusion, one should pause to consider whether it is not unreasonable ... -
The national expenditure of the Irish Free State in 1926
(Statistical and Social Inquiry Society of Ireland, 1933)In the Economic Journal, March, 1933, I based an estimate of the national income of the population of the Irish Free State in 1926 on the published official statistics in the reports on the Census of Population and ... -
Obituary
(Statistical and Social Inquiry Society of Ireland, 1931)During the last few years the Society has lost through death no fewer than six of its most active and distinguished members, Professor C. H. Oldham who died in 1926, Sir William Thompson and Dr. Ninian Falkiner who died ... -
The organisation of official statistics in Saorstat Eireann and in some other countries
(Statistical and Social Inquiry Society of Ireland, 1933)In the complexity of modern life, governments and peoples require a vast and ever-increasing fund of measurable facts, or as they are called "statistics," for their work and weal. They require to know the size and ... -
A plea for winter dairying
(Statistical and Social Inquiry Society of Ireland, 1931)Countrymen are familiar with the practice of holding out a carrot to an obstinate type of quadruped in order to induce it to go where it would otherwise be unwilling to go. When it gets there it may possibly get some ... -
The population problem : a radio discussion
(Statistical and Social Inquiry Society of Ireland, 1938)The present discussion on the Irish population problem has been arranged on the invitation of the Director of Broadcasting by the Statistical and Social Inquiry Society of Ireland. This Society which in a few years will ... -
Preliminary notes on the Census of Population in Northern Ireland, 1937
(Statistical and Social Inquiry Society of Ireland, 1937)The second Census of the Six Counties of Northern Ireland was taken on February 28th, 1937. The preliminary figures of that Census have now been published, and it will be of some interest to discover how far they disclose ... -
The problem of population
(Statistical and Social Inquiry Society of Ireland, 1937)The problem of population is going to be of growing importance amongst the white races in the coming decades. A gradually accelerating decline seems to be inevitable. Even though this decline may not be large during the ... -
Proceedings of the Statistical and Social Inquiry Society of Ireland : eighty-ninth session 1935/1936
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Proceedings of the Statistical and Social Inquiry Society of Ireland : eighty-seventh session 1933/1934
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Proceedings of the Statistical and Social Inquiry Society Of Ireland: eighty-fourth session 1930/1931
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Proceedings of the Statistical and Social Inquiry Society of Ireland: eighty-sixth session 1932/1933
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Proceedings of the Statistical and Social Inquiry Society of Ireland: ninetieth session 1936/1937
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Proceedings of the Statistical and Social Inquiry Society of Ireland: one hundred and sixteenth session -1962/63
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The public debt of the Irish Free State
(Statistical and Social Inquiry Society of Ireland, 1935)It is intended in this paper to review certain salient facts in regard to the public debt of the Irish Free State. It will be understood that it would not be possible within the limits of time and space available to ...
