Browsing JSSISI: Journal of The Statistical and Social Inquiry Society of Ireland, 1847- by Title

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    • The Tierney report - a challenge for leadership 

      Mulcahy, Noel (Statistical and Social Inquiry Society of Ireland, 1996)
      This paper is presented as a means of demonstrating that the Tierney Report, arising from the work of the Science Technology and Innovation Advisory Council (STIAC), has the potential to stimulate a new phase of ...

    • Time period versus generation: how should trends in fertility be measured 

      Ni Bhrolchain, Maire (Statistical and Social Inquiry Society of Ireland, 1996)
      This paper starts by presenting the contrast between two approaches to depicting time-trends in fertility - the period and cohort perspectives - and discusses why it is that the existence of two approaches presents a ...

    • Tony Atkinson’s New Book, Measuring Poverty Around the World: Some Further Reflections 

      Brandolini, Andrea; Micklewright, John (Statistical and Social Inquiry Society of Ireland, 2020)
      A new book on measuring global poverty by the late Tony Atkinson was published in 2019 by Princeton University Press. We describe how we edited the incomplete manuscript that Atkinson left at his death, the additions we ...

    • Top Incomes in Ireland: Reconciling Evidence from Tax Records and Household Survey Data 

      Callan, T.; Doorley, K.; McTague, A. (Statistical Society and Social Inquiry of Ireland, 2021)
      There are substantial divergences between the pictures of income inequality provided by household survey data for the full population and analyses based on administrative data generated by the income tax system focusing ...

    • Topics suggested for investigation and discussion 

      Urlin, R. Denny; Monahan, James H.; Abraham, George W.; Houston, Arthur; Lawlor, Joseph; McDonnell, Robert (Statistical and Social Inquiry Society of Ireland, 1864)

    • Total civilian income in Northern Ireland 

      Cuthbert, Norman (Statistical and Social Inquiry Society of Ireland, 1951)
      In recent years a good deal of the attention of economists has been devoted to regional problems. This has been largely due to the realisation that the mobility of factors of production (particularly labour) has been far ...

    • The tourist movement in Ireland 

      Wilson, D. J. (Statistical and Social Inquiry Society of Ireland, 1906)
      My paper should, I am aware, be devoted to a statistical and social review. I have discovered, however, that the subject is eminently one which does not lend itself to statistics, and I propose instead to treat it from ...

    • Towards a definition of full employment in Ireland 

      Slattery, D. G. (Statistical and Social Inquiry Society of Ireland, 1977)
      The purposes of the present paper are first to examine the nature of the inflation - pressure of demand trade-off in the Irish economy and second to use the trade-off to essay a constrained definition of full employment ...

    • 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 ...

    • Towards an Irish Recorded Crime Index 

      Linehan, Timothy (SSISI, 2017)
      Recorded crime statistics form an important component of criminal justice and social policy. Of equal importance as the number of crimes however, is measuring the seriousness of these crimes. The Irish Recorded Crime Index ...

    • Towards regional environmental accounts for Ireland 

      Commins, Nicola; Crilly, Niamh; Lyons, Sean; Morgenroth, Edgar; TOL, RICHARD S. J. (Statistical and Social Inquiry Society of Ireland, 2009)
      Existing environmental accounts for the Republic of Ireland are at the national level. This is fine for continental and global environmental problems, but information at a finer spatial scale is needed for local environmental ...

    • Trade and development: the challenges facing the WTO Doha development road 

      Morahan, John (Statistical and Social Inquiry Society of Ireland, 2006)
      The WTO Ministerial meeting in Doha in November 2001 launched a new Round of world trade talks known as the Doha Development Agenda or Death. DDA represents a new approach to the goal of integrating developing countries ...

    • Trade and industry 

      Fitzpatrick, Jim (Statistical and Social Inquiry Society of Ireland, 1985)
      This paper discusses trade aspects of Ireland's relations with Third World countries. As implied in the overall title of the symposium, "Ireland, Europe and the Third World", the topic is dealt with in a European Community ...

    • The trade statistics of the Irish Free State : methodological aspects 

      Lyon, Stanley (Statistical and Social Inquiry Society of Ireland, 1938)
      In May, 1925, I read before this Society one of a series of short papers which were then presented on trade statistics and I am glad to have this opportunity of bringing to your notice some facts which will indicate ...

    • The trade statistics of the Irish Free State : recent trends 

      Duncan, G. A. (Statistical and Social Inquiry Society of Ireland, 1938)
      The most characteristic years for the comparison of the movements of external trade are 1926, the year after the reestablishment of the gold standard by the United Kingdom; 1929, the apex of the second post-war boom; ...

    • The trade statistics of the Irish Free State : some notes by a business man 

      Eason, J. C. M. (Statistical and Social Inquiry Society of Ireland, 1938)
      Since the formation of the Irish Free State as a separate political unit, special interest attaches to the various statistical tables prepared and published, recording the changes taking place in economic and social ...

    • Trade statistics of the Irish Free State in 1924 

      Oldham, C. H. (Statistical and Social Inquiry Society of Ireland, 1925)
      At the outset of his Essay, Mr. Hooper gives us new information regarding three matters, viz.? Import and Export figures for (i) Transit Trade, which passes across without coming into ownership in this country, (the total ...

    • Trade statistics of the Irish Free State in 1924 

      Manley, Patrick (Statistical and Social Inquiry Society of Ireland, 1925)
      An analysis of the Trade Statistics of dutiable goods must necessarily be narrow, as the number of articles liable to duty is, comparatively speaking, small. The total number of articles, both free and dutiable, shown ...

    • Trade statistics of the Irish Free State in 1924 

      Eason, J. C. M. (Statistical and Social Inquiry Society of Ireland, 1925)
      The complete figures of Imports and Exports covering a full twelve months will form a starting point for a series of yearly comparisons which as time goes on will become increasingly valuable. Pending the time when such ...

    • Trade statistics of the Irish Free State in 1924 

      Lyon, Stanley G. (Statistical and Social Inquiry Society of Ireland, 1925)
      The following is a criticism of Mr. Hooper's recent report on the trade of the Irish Free State during the year 1924. I shall have to excuse myself by mentioning that this paper is written at the request of our ...