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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 ...
    • 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 ...
    • The aged in three western societies 

      Friis, Henning (Statistical and Social Inquiry Society of Ireland, 1966)
      'A comparative social survey on living conditions and behaviour of the aged in Denmark, Great Britain and U.S.A.'- subtitle. Through the last fifteen years important new territory has been conquered in social gerontology ...
    • An econometric method of forecasting the demand for food in Ireland in 1970 

      Hart, Julian (Statistical and Social Inquiry Society of Ireland, 1966)
      In the present decade, there are two major factors that can be expected to affect the demand for food in Ireland; the first is the country's becoming part of the European Economic Community, the second is the attainment ...
    • The economics of Irish forestry 

      Gray, H. J. (Statistical and Social Inquiry Society of Ireland, 1964)
      In reviewing the development of State Forestry in Ireland with particular regard to its economic implications, I propose to deal successively with three main periods of development?-1908-1922 and 1922-1958?which between ...
    • An examination of the Northern Irish sea fishing industry 

      Hughes, P. H. (Statistical and Social Inquiry Society of Ireland, 1968)
      The Northern Irish sea fishing industry is of the in-shore type, the boats seldom being absent from port for more than eighteen or twenty hours at a time. By almost any standard these boats are up to date and well ...
    • 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. ...
    • 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 ...
    • Collective bargaining and industrial disputes in Ireland 

      McAuley, D. J. (Statistical and Social Inquiry Society of Ireland, 1967)
      This paper falls into three main sections. The first section contains a general description of the legislative and institutional framework of the industrial relations system. The second section concerns collective ...
    • 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 ...
    • Agricultural developments in Ireland, north and south 

      Attwood, E. A. (Statistical and Social Inquiry Society of Ireland, 1967)
      The agreement on the reduction of the trade barriers between the United Kingdom and the Republic of Ireland has given rise to hopes of a new impetus to the development of Irish agriculture. Economic history is not ...
    • 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 ...
    • 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 ...
    • 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 ...
    • Economic studies in Northern Ireland labour statistics 

      O'Herlihy, C. St J. (Statistical and Social Inquiry Society of Ireland, 1964)
      This paper deals with three topics all related to Northern Ireland. The first part is devoted to an analysis of the difference in weekly earnings between Great Britain and Northern Ireland for 22 minimum list headings. ...
    • 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 ...