JSSISI: 1947 to 1952, Vol. XVIII, Sessions 101st to 105th: Recent submissions

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    • 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 ...

    • Financial results on twenty farms in mid-Roscommon in 1945-46 

      O'Connor, R. (Statistical and Social Inquiry Society of Ireland, 1949)
      In April 1945, an enquiry was started by the writer into the costs and incomes of a number of farms in Mid-Roscommon. The inquiry was designed to cover the period 1st April, 1945, to 31st March, 1946, and was carried out ...

    • Measurement of tariff levels for Ireland, for 1931, 1936, 1938 

      Ryan, W. J. L. (Statistical and Social Inquiry Society of Ireland, 1949)
      The object, in the determination of tariff levels, is to express the height of tariffs m terms of a single figure, or index. Before examining the theoretical and statistical problems involved m the construction of such an ...

    • Recent developments in Northern Irish agriculture 

      Smith, L. P. F. (Statistical and Social Inquiry Society of Ireland, 1949)
      In the twenty-seven years since Ireland was divided there have been many developments both in the production and in the disposal of agricultural produce On the whole both sections had the same initial structure of the ...

    • Scope and method of econometrics: illustrated by applications to American agriculture 

      Tintner, Gerhard (Statistical and Social Inquiry Society of Ireland, 1949)
      Econometrics is the application of a specific method in the general field of economic science in an effort to achieve numerical results and to verify economic theorems. It consists in the application of mathematical economic ...

    • The need for a law of adoption 

      McCabe, E. W. (Statistical and Social Inquiry Society of Ireland, 1949)
      The practice of adoption is as old as history. It was known to the Babylonians and Greeks, and, coming closer to our own age, we can turn to the omniscient Shakespeare who, in Othello, puts into the lips of the Moor's ...

    • Ireland's external assets 

      Whitaker, T. K. (Statistical and Social Inquiry Society of Ireland, 1949)
      The term ?external assets? as applied to holdings by Irish people abroad would be misleading if it conveyed the impression of a diversity of holdings in different currencies. In fact, over 97% of these external assets are ...

    • Pig-production methods in Denmark, Sweden, Holland and Ireland 

      Senior, Brendan J. (Statistical and Social Inquiry Society of Ireland, 1949)
      In the Scandinavian countries for many years past, and in Holland more recently, elaborately organised systems of pig-testing have been developed. The object is to provide the farmer with the type of pig best suited to ...

    • A study of Catholic, ecclesiastical and religious statistics 

      Kiernan, T. J. (Statistical and Social Inquiry Society of Ireland, 1951)
      The purpose of this paper, introducing to the Society the subject of Catholic ecclesiastical and religion statistics, is to suggest some lines of inquiry, while also giving a general account of contemporary studies in ...

    • The finance of air transport services in Ireland 

      Brennan, Peter (Statistical and Social Inquiry Society of Ireland, 1951)
      I begin with a few words by way of definition of the scope of this paper. The finance it is to be concerned with is that of commercial aviation as an Irish industry. Accordingly, no attempt is made to cover the finances ...

    • Raw materials for Irish animal husbandry 

      Johnston, Joseph (Statistical and Social Inquiry Society of Ireland, 1951)
      There are three possible objectives for agricultural production. One may produce cash crops for direct human consumption. This, of course, involves tillage. One may produce animal products also for human consumption; In ...

    • A summary of the figures of expenditure and revenue presented in the finance accounts for the years 1929-30, 1939-40 and 1949-50 

      Eason, J. C. M. (Statistical and Social Inquiry Society of Ireland, 1951)
      This paper is not an examination of the field of public finance? it deals with the figures in the Finance Accounts. It would require a student, which I am not, to cover the wider ground. I have even left aside the expenditure ...

    • Prison life in Eire and the English criminal justice act, 1948 

      Molony, Thomas F., Sir (Statistical and Social Inquiry Society of Ireland, 1949)
      In 1827 Elizabeth Fry enunciated a great axiom to an unbelieving public ?Punishment is not for revenge but to lessen crime and reform the criminal? The belief in this axiom grew slowly but gained more important exponents ...