Category Archives: Regional Statistics

Covid 19 Pandemic Unemployment Payments in the Western Region

Posted on May 19, 2020 by WDC Insights

  Continuing our analysis of the economic and social impacts of the Covid 19 pandemic on the Western Region it is useful to look at the number in Western Region counties in receipt of the Pandemic Unemployment Payment (PUP) today, … Continue reading →

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Remote Working in Ireland During Covid-19 – Initial Findings from WDC/NUIG Survey

Posted on May 13, 2020 by WDC Insights

Introduction The WDC in partnership with Whitaker Institute NUIG has just published initial findings of its survey Remote Working in Ireland During COVID-19, see here. These are the summary results from the national survey of 7,241 individuals across a wide … Continue reading →

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Business Sectors and Employment in the Western Region: Exploring some potential impacts of the Covid 19 shock

Posted on April 29, 2020 by WDC Insights

While the detail and scale of the consequences of the Covid-19 containment measures are not yet clear, it is useful to consider, using available data, how the Western Region might be impacted.  There are many unknowns including in relation to … Continue reading →

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Exploring some potential impacts of the Covid 19 shock on the Western Region – revisiting sectoral employment patterns

Posted on April 27, 2020 by WDC Insights

  The Corona virus pandemic and consequent shutdown is bringing, and will bring, a massive economic shock globally, nationally and regionally, but the detail and scale of the consequences are not yet clear.  There are many unknowns including in relation … Continue reading →

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How are we doing? Changes and Trends in County Incomes in the Western Region

Posted on March 10, 2020 by WDC Insights

The CSO released data on County Incomes and Regional GDP for 2017 last month (along with preliminary figures for 2018).  In this post changes in disposable incomes per person in Western Region counties incomes in the Western Region are examined … Continue reading →

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Agency Workers – How Many Are There and Where do they Work?

Posted on November 13, 2019 by WDC Insights

Introduction There is much discussion about the growth of ‘atypical’ forms of work – such as e-working, remote working, the gig, shared economy and temporary work etc. The WDC has previously examined various aspects of atypical ways of working, identifying … Continue reading →

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Low carbon transition for Western Region homes- what’s the base line?

Posted on October 24, 2019 by WDC Insights

One of the most important elements of the transition to a low carbon rural region will be emissions reduction from homes in the Western Region by improving energy efficiency and switching to renewable energy sources for heating in particular (as … Continue reading →

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Incomes in the Western Region: what do Geographical Income Profiles tell us?

Posted on September 6, 2019 by WDC Insights

At WDC Insights we are always on the lookout for data sources which can improve our understanding of the economy and society of the Western Region and give us greater insight into how the people living and working here are … Continue reading →

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Our 5th Birthday! 5 years of the WDC Insights Blog

Posted on July 25, 2019 by WDC Insights

Five years ago today we published the first WDC Insights blog post.  This special anniversary post today is our 208th post. As we noted in the celebration for our 200th post, the blog covers a wider range of topics from … Continue reading →

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The Public Administration & Defence Sector in the Western Region

Posted on July 17, 2019 by WDC Insights

The Western Development Commission (WDC) has just published the 9th in its Regional Sectoral Profile series which analyse employment in different economic sectors in the Western Region. And this one is of particular interest to us, as it’s the sector … Continue reading →

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