Browsing by Subject "Census"

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    • The development of the Irish census, and its national importance 

      Thompson, William J. (Statistical and Social Inquiry Society of Ireland, 1912)
      The people of Great Britain and Ireland are accustomed every ten years to the taking of the Census, occurring, as it does, in the first year of each decennial period. To a majority of the population this may seem a ...

    • The mechanism of statistics 

      Matheson, Robert E. (Statistical and Social Inquiry Society of Ireland, 1893)
      It has fallen to my lot to serve in a Department where every variety of statistical work is to be found, and where the practical problems of how information is to be collected, tabulated, and published at a minimum ...

    • The organisation of official statistics in Saorstat Eireann and in some other countries 

      Lyon, Stanley (Statistical and Social Inquiry Society of Ireland, 1933)
      In the complexity of modern life, governments and peoples require a vast and ever-increasing fund of measurable facts, or as they are called "statistics," for their work and weal. They require to know the size and ...

    • Using an administrative primary care health activity indicator to address under-enumeration in the 2011 Census in Northern Ireland 

      Green, Brian; IJpelaar, Jos; Marshall, David; Beatty, Robert (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 ...