Archive JSSISI: 1847- Complete Collection: Recent submissions
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Proceedings of the Statistical and Social Inquiry of Ireland One Hundred and Sixty-Seventh Session: 2013/2014
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Using an administrative primary care health activity indicator to address under-enumeration in the 2011 Census in Northern Ireland
(Statistical and Social Inquiry Society of Ireland, 2014)Despite the fact that the Census Act (Northern Ireland) 1969 places a legal obligation on everyone in the Country to take part in the Census, not everyone does. This gives rise to under-enumeration, which is not unique to ... -
Extending supply side statistics for the tourism sector: A new approach based on linked-administrative data
(Statistical and Social Inquiry Society of Ireland, 2014)This paper presents a new approach to measuring and understanding the activities of the tourism industries in Ireland. Using structural business statistics and administrative registers a new set of static and dynamic ... -
The economic structure of towns in Ireland
(Statistical and Social Inquiry Society of Ireland, 2014)In this paper we undertook an analysis of the Economic Structure of Towns in Ireland, classified by size. While economic development in Ireland is often viewed as an East-West issue, the situation is more complex. Traditionally ... -
The impact of the patent cliff on Pharma-Chem output in Ireland
(Statistical and Social Inquiry Society of Ireland, 2014)Ireland has a well-established specialisation in pharma-chem production, with nine of the top ten multinational corporations located in Ireland. The sector accounts for about 11 per cent of value added although due to its ... -
Dis-entangling the mortgage arrears crisis: The role of the labour market, income volatility and negative equity
(Statistical and Social Inquiry Society of Ireland, 2014)Despite various efforts to address the mortgage arrears crisis, arrears remain at an elevated level. Designing policies to deal with such high levels of distress requires a deep understanding of the precise sources of the ... -
Income and income tax inequalities in Ireland – New evidence and further illustration of the progressivity of the Irish income tax system
(Statistical and Social Inquiry Society of Ireland, 2014)This paper presents new estimates of income and income tax inequalities in Ireland during 2001- 2012, using publicly available (grouped) data from the Revenue Commissioners. The analysis is based on a novel estimator for ... -
Safeguarding trust in Irish Official Statistics: A code of practice for the Irish statistical system
(Statistical and Social Inquiry Society of Ireland, 2014)For official statistics to be of value they must be trusted. Achieving and maintaining trust requires that statistics are produced in an objective, transparent and independent manner. In many countries codes of practice ... -
The European Statistics Code of Practice as a pillar to strengthen public trust and enhance quality in official statistics
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The Irish statistical system – Preserving trust through quality standards
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Money demand in Ireland, 1933-2012
(Statistical and Social Inquiry Society of Ireland, 2014)Using annual data from several sources, we study the evolution of M1, M2, income, prices and long and short interest rates in Ireland over the period 1933-2012. We find cointegration and that prices, income and interest ... -
Identifying policy impacts in the crisis: Microsimulation evidence on tax and welfare
(Statistical and Social Inquiry Society of Ireland, 2013)Ireland?s banking, property and fiscal crises, combined with a worldwide Great Recession have had severe implications for household incomes. Particular attention has focused on how incomes at various levels have been ... -
Effects of R&D spending on innovation by Irish and foreign-owned businesses
(Statistical and Social Inquiry Society of Ireland, 2013)This paper estimates the private returns to four different kinds of R&D spending on the probability of Irish and foreign-owned businesses engaging in product, process and organizational innovation. By providing econometric ... -
The impact of changes in educational attainment on life expectancy in Ireland
(Statistical and Social Inquiry Society of Ireland, 2013)This article looks at scenarios quantifying the potential contribution of increasing educational attainment to the prospective improvement in life expectancy in Ireland over the next 50 years. This analysis uses recently ... -
Estimating the effects of land-use and catchment characteristics on lake water quality: Irish lakes 2004-2009
(Statistical and Social Inquiry Society of Ireland, 2013)This paper attributes the variation in water quality across Irish lakes to a range of contributory factors such as human population, septic tanks, urban waste water treatment, phosphorous excreted by livestock, as well as ... -
Politicians, the bureaucracy and economic policymaking over two crises: the 1950s and today
(Statistical and Social Inquiry Society of Ireland, 2013)Recent reports into the performance of the Central Bank, the Financial Regulator and the Department of Finance in the lead-up to the current crisis identify three key weaknesses: the pressures towards `group think? within ... -
Reform of public policy-making in Ireland
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Researchers imply, policymakers infer: the relationship between evidence and policy
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An inquiry into the declining labour share of national income and the consequences for economies and societies
(Statistical and Social Inquiry Society of Ireland, 2013)For over three decades, the share of national income going to labour in most countries has been in decline. Conversely, capital?s share of national income has increased. The trend in the decline in labour?s share of income ... -
Northern Ireland Composite Economic Index: Development of a quarterly output measure for NI
(Statistical and Social Inquiry Society of Ireland, 2013)This paper presents the methodology and results of an experimental Composite Economic Index developed by the Northern Ireland Statistics and Research Agency (NISRA). The aim of the Index is to provide a short term measure ...
