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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"
Certain Aspects of Non-Agricultural Unemployment in Ireland. General Research Series Paper No. 52, January 1970
In Ireland less attention is paid to the chronically
high Irish unemployment rate than the gravity of
the problem merits. Indeed, the reason it is more
or less tacitly tolerated may be its permanent
character. Also, unemployment has declined considerably
over the years. At the Census of Population
(CP) of April 1936 those out of work numbered
95,000; in April 1966 the number was
52,000 in a labour force which, comparatively, did
not change much. As regards non-agricultural
unemployment (NAU), with which we are solely
concerned here, numbers declined in the 30 years
from 69,000 to 42,000. Since the non-agricultural
employee labour force (employed and unemployed)
greatly increased, the decline in rates
(i.e. out of work as percentage of employee labour
force) is even more striking: from 12.2 per cent
to 6.3 per cent. In the next section we shall find
that the decline in rates was also very marked in
the post-war II period. No doubt the fact of the
decline, as well as the efforts (largely successful in
the economic sense)being made to develop industry
(and incidentally1 to create new jobs) has done
much to assuage the public conscience. We shall
see, however, that in Irish conditions, there is no
necessary connection between increased employment
and decline in unemployment at rates of
expansion of the economy prevailing in recent
years and we shall show why. As a consequence,
it would appear that, to cope with the problem of
high unemployment, more must be done than expanding the economy. Unemployment must be
regarded as a specific social problem, almost as
if it were isolated from economic development.
Employment and unemployment are not one
problem but two
US Participation in the GOME and SCIAMACHY Projects
This report summarizes research done under NASA Grant NAGW-2541 through September 30, 1997. The research performed under this grant includes development and maintenance of scientific software for the GOME retrieval algorithms, consultation on operational software development for GOME, sensitivity and instrument studies to define GOME and SCIAMACHY instruments, consultation on optical and detector issues for both GOME and SCIAMACHY, consultation and development for SCIAMACHY near-real-time (NRT) and off-line (OL) data products, and development of infrared line-by-line atmospheric modeling and retrieval capability for SCIAMACHY. The European Space Agency selected the SAO to participate in GOME validation and science studies, part of the overall ERS AO. This provided access to all GOME data; The SAO activities that are carried out as a result of selection by ESA were funded by the present grant. The Global Ozone Monitoring Experiment was successfully launched on the ERS- 2 satellite on April 20, 1995, and remains working in normal fashion. SCIAMACHY is currently scheduled for launch in early 2000. The first two European ozone monitoring instruments (OMI), to fly on the q series of operational meteorological satellites being planned by Eumetsat, have been selected to be GOME-type instruments (the first, in fact, will be the refurbished GOME flight spare). K. Chance is the U.S. member of the OMI Users Advisory Group
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