Browsing JSSISI: 1947 to 1952, Vol. XVIII, Sessions 101st to 105th by Date of Publication
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Tuberculosis: a social survey
(Statistical and Social Inquiry Society of Ireland, 1948)Tuberculosis is essentially a disease of civilization, which dates back to the earliest days of history. We see five great historical facts about the disease, (i) its antiquity, (ii) its recognition as a separate disease, ... -
Analysis showing the objects of expenditure and sources of revenue of Eire during financial years 1929/30, 1939/40 and 1945/46
(Statistical and Social Inquiry Society of Ireland, 1948)This paper presents the details of the 1945/46 Finance Accounts, and incorporates the Tables which appeared in the last paper read before the Society on the 23rd May, 1941. The basis of classification is put in the foreground ... -
Natality in Dublin in the years 1943, 1944 and 1945
(Statistical and Social Inquiry Society of Ireland, 1948)The population problem is a subject of the greatest importance to every country. The Government of this country has quite recently appointed a Commission to inquire into the level and trend of Population, with a special ... -
The function of marketing research in the distributive system
(Statistical and Social Inquiry Society of Ireland, 1948)Marketing research may be said to perform the same function in the economic system as the reconnaissance patrol performs in military manoeuvres. Its main purpose is to discover, as far in advance as possible, what are the ... -
An economic basis for an Irish rural civilisation
(Statistical and Social Inquiry Society of Ireland, 1948)The general argument of this paper is that if we would establish a suitable economic basis for a worth-while Irish rural civilisation we must have, not only co-operation of farmers living in their scattered homesteads, ... -
Our dairying and cattle industries
(Statistical and Social Inquiry Society of Ireland, 1948)In this country, of the 11.6 million acres of agricultural land, before the war about 10 millions were under grass. While in the future the cultivated area may not sink to the 1939 level, there is no doubt that in the ... -
The Industrial Relations Act, 1946
(Statistical and Social Inquiry Society of Ireland, 1948)The Industrial Relations Act, which was introduced and enacted last year with the general approval of both employers' and workers' organizations and of all parties in the Oireachtas, is not a very lengthy measure, but it ... -
Theories of adjustment of the balance of payments under fixed exchanges
(Statistical and Social Inquiry Society of Ireland, 1948)Any system of stable exchange rates is one in which the quantity of money in each country is determined primarily by the balance of payments. Discrepancies in the balance of payments may be settled temporarily by movements ... -
Excess demand and investment in the United Kingdom
(Statistical and Social Inquiry Society of Ireland, 1948)By excess demand I mean the current excess of private disposable income, after the deduction of voluntary saving, over the target- figure for the supply of consumption goods at current prices, and that piled-up demand for ... -
Prison life in Eire and the English criminal justice act, 1948
(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 ... -
Measurement of tariff levels for Ireland, for 1931, 1936, 1938
(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 ... -
Ireland's external assets
(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
(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 ... -
Financial results on twenty farms in mid-Roscommon in 1945-46
(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 ... -
The need for a law of adoption
(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 ... -
Recent developments in Northern Irish agriculture
(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
(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 ... -
Financial results on twenty-five farms in mid-Roscommon in 1948-1949
(Statistical and Social Inquiry Society of Ireland, 1950)It should be explained at the outset that the main object of these inquiries is not so much to examine financial conditions in this district as to show ways and means of carrying out a more broadly based survey. In other ... -
State enterprises
(Statistical and Social Inquiry Society of Ireland, 1950)Twenty-five years ago there was in existence only a single company which might be regarded as similar to the very large number of semi- state bodies which are now in existence. During the intervening twenty five years while ... -
The Universities - III
(Statistical and Social Inquiry Society of Ireland, 1950)The limitations of this paper should be made clear at the start. It represents an attempt to bring together the statistics relating to university education in this part of the country and to examine how far they have changed ...
