The Irish Woollen and Worsted Industry, 1946-59 : A Study in Statistical Method. ESRI General Research Series Paper No. 7, July 1962

The object of the present paper is to analyse in some detail the extensive statistical data provided in the annual Censuses of Industrial Production (CIP) conducted annually by the Central Statistics Office (CSO). The Woollen and Worsted industry (hereinafter the "Industry") has been selected because, as compared with most other industries, it is relatively homogeneous in products and materials. The author has no special knowledge of the Industry’s problems except that which emerges from a study of the statistics. It is hoped that this paper will bring these problems into sharper focus and thus contribute something to their solution; and if this pilot effort be deemed successful in whole or in part the methods used could be extended to other industries

THE SOCIAL SCIENCE PERCENTAGE NUISANCE. BROADSHEET No. 6 AUGUST i972

One of the episodes in a long lifetime in statistics which, on recoiiection,,gives the writer most satisfaction was a forthright attack he delivered many years ago at ~a~Dublin Rotary Club Luncheon on Opini0n-type polls. The immediate provocation was a banner headline in a newspaper "XY Poll Does It Again"m in a UK general election. The argument ran that as XY prophesied that Labour would poll 49 per cent of the votes when the actual poll turned out to be 5o per cent (both figures imaginary) this represented an error of"only .I p e,rcent ."~ It was easy to point out the falsityof this claim: no one in his senses.wouldhave anticipated Labour’s polling as much as 55 per cent. oras little as 45 per cent~ a range of io per cent (and it might be less). The ;’i per cent error" should be related to this io per cent (or less) giving a real error of io per cent (or more), seriously raising the question of whether the XY poll had any value at all

Population Growth and Other Statistics of Middle-sized Irish Towns. General Research Series Paper No. 85, April 1976

The basic aim of the study is the presentation of tables of comparative statistical data relating to 97 towns with population 5OO-1O,OOO in 1971 and analyses of such data. The exclusion of the four County Boroughs and Dun Laoghaire together with twelve other large towns and all small towns and villages, was to impart a degree of homogeneity to the inquiry, as regards function of town. The 97 towns range from Mullingar, the largest with a population of 9,245 to Cootehill with 1,542

User's manual for the REEDM (Rocket Exhaust Effluent Diffusion Model) computer program

The REEDM computer program predicts concentrations, dosages, and depositions downwind from normal and abnormal launches of rocket vehicles at NASA's Kennedy Space Center. The atmospheric dispersion models, cloud-rise models, and other formulas used in the REEDM model are described mathematically Vehicle and source parameters, other pertinent physical properties of the rocket exhaust cloud, and meteorological layering techniques are presented as well as user's instructions for REEDM. Worked example problems are included

Program listing for the REEDM (Rocket Exhaust Effluent Diffusion Model) computer program

The program listing for the REEDM Computer Program is provided. A mathematical description of the atmospheric dispersion models, cloud-rise models, and other formulas used in the REEDM model; vehicle and source parameters, other pertinent physical properties of the rocket exhaust cloud and meteorological layering techniques; user's instructions for the REEDM computer program; and worked example problems are contained in NASA CR-3646

Irish County Incomes in 1960. ESRI General Research Series Paper No. 16, September 1963

This paper owes its inception to a problem which the Taoiseach (Prime Minister), Mr. Se~n F. Lemass, T.D., at the Opening Ceremony on 6 June, 196I, asked the Institute to examine, in the following terms:-- "The Minister for Finance has already raised the questions whether the present system is adequate or appropriate to deal with the increasing activities of local bodies or whether a more rational or more effective system could be devised. There is a situation developing in local authority operations, and their financing, which requires consideration. Investigations, under the auspices of the Institute, of certain aspects, including the economic aspects, of the incidence of local taxation covering such matters as the effect of the local rate charge on enterprise and development, and the possibilities of providing Local Authorities with new sources of income, will provide some basic material which will be invaluable in the review of local finance which the Minister for Local Government intends to undertake"

Some Aspects of Price Inflation in Ireland. ESRI General Research Series Paper No. 40, January 1968

In every country prices have risen sUbstantiaUy since the end of the war. In Ireland, as in six other European countries, consumer prices had almost doubled between 1948 and 1965--see Table 2. Is this situation of continuously rising prices in the indefinite future a fact of life which must be accepted and with which we must somehow cope, or does it mean that a sudden, and possibly catastrophic, fall in prices, like that of May 192o after World War I, is to be anticipated? History generally has a way of repeating itself and similarities are observable between our times and others, but with much longer time-lags between cause and effect in the more recent period. One might hope that, as governments nowadays have much greater control of their economies than in the past, and with the development of the social conscience, disastrous price falls can be avoided or mitigated. It is only a hope, however

Irish County Incomes in 1960. ESRI General Research Series Paper No. 16, September 1963

This paper owes its inception to a problem which the Taoiseach (Prime Minister), Mr. Se~n F. Lemass, T.D., at the Opening Ceremony on 6 June, 196I, asked the Institute to examine, in the following terms:-- "The Minister for Finance has already raised the questions whether the present system is adequate or appropriate to deal with the increasing activities of local bodies or whether a more rational or more effective system could be devised. There is a situation developing in local authority operations, and their financing, which requires consideration. Investigations, under the auspices of the Institute, of certain aspects, including the economic aspects, of the incidence of local taxation covering such matters as the effect of the local rate charge on enterprise and development, and the possibilities of providing Local Authorities with new sources of income, will provide some basic material which will be invaluable in the review of local finance which the Minister for Local Government intends to undertake"