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Longer analysis built on statsmapped's own data: what the numbers show, what they do not, and the checks each claim survived.

• Census unemployment and the Live Register move together across Irish counties (r = 0.869) — but Tipperary and Meath sit furthest from what their own census figures predict
  The two measures track each other closely across all 26 counties — which is exactly what makes the counties that break the pattern worth a look. Tipperary's Live Register rate runs 8.5 per 1,000 residents above what its census unemployment figure predicts; Meath's runs 9.1 per 1,000 below its own. That is not Tipperary vs. Meath on unemployment — their census rates are nearly identical (30.9 vs. 30.6 per 1,000) — it is each county measured against its own expected value.
• Count homes, not permissions: why Cork ranks 19th on one planning measure and 1st on the other
  CSO counts every planning permission once, whether it's for one house or two hundred flats -- and that single counting choice is enough to flip which Irish counties look like the biggest approvers of new housing.
• One Map, Many Stories: Why Most County Comparisons Are the Same Story Twice
  Test 38 county-level relationships in Irish official statistics against local earnings, and 23 of them collapse -- because they were never really about what they claimed, they were about the same urban-rural income divide.

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