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This Joint Committee Print, dated December 8, 1982, gathers studies that the Central Intelligence Agency's Directorate of Intelligence prepared for the Joint Economic Committee of the US Congress. It gives estimates of Soviet gross national product for 1950 to 1980, with indexes of industrial production, agricultural production and consumption, and explains the methods and data behind them. The foreword says official Soviet statistics inflate growth and that the CIA measures offer a more accurate picture. The document contains no UFO material.
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Approved for Release: 2019/07/19 C05210421 Weights Value added in the trade sector in 1970 is derived in appendix D, at 18.273 billion rubles. The value added in each of the three branches of the trade sector is shown in the following tabulation: Distribution of the Value Added Billion Rubles in the Trade Sector, 1970 Total Retail Wholesale Agricultural Trade Trade Trade Procurement Total value 18.273 11.263 4.826 2.184 added Wage bill 8.748 Other and 0.932 imputed income Social 0.395 insurance Depreci- 1.323 ation Profits 6.679 3.359 2.208 1.112 Subsidies -0.530 -0.530 0 0 Miscella- 0.726 0.447 0.192 0.087 neous charges Percent 100.0 61.64 26.41 11.95 6.436 0.686 1.646 0.175 0.666 0.071 0.291 0.074 0.030 0.574 0.531 0.218 The sources for each line item are: Toral Value Added. This is derived as the sum of the components. Wage Bill. The total wage bill, 8.748 billion rubles, is divided among the branches using employment data for the USSR and wage data for Estonia. Average wages and employment in Estonia for 1970 for three branches (retail trade, wholesale trade, and public dining; material-technical supply; and agricultural procurement) are given in Narodnoe khozyaystvo Estonskoy SSR v I972 godu, Tallin, Eesti Raamat, 1973, pp. 219 and 223. These data plus the implied average monthly wage rate for the total trade sector are shown in the tabulation below. Also shown is the ratio of the monthly wages in each of the three branches to the monthly wage rate for the entire trade S€C1LOI'I (1 ) Employment in Estonia (thousands) (2) Monthly Wages in Estonia (rubles) (3) Ratio of Monthly Wages to Average (percent) Total trade 54.2 SCCIOI’ 105.9 100.0 Trade (whole- 46.1 sale and retail) and public dining 103.5 97.7 Material- 6.0 technical supply 121.5 114.7 Agricultural 2.1 113.9 107.6 pl'OCLll'C[I1C[11. It is assumed that the structure of relative monthly wages was the same for the USSR as it was for Estonia. The first column in the tabulation below shows the average monthly wage rates implied by this assumption. They are calculated by multiplying the data in column 3 of the tabulation above by the average monthly wage for the total trade sector for the USSR of 95.1 rubles (Narkhoz I979, p. 395). Employment in each branch is shown in column 2. Total trade and retail trade employment are given in Narkhoz I973, pp. 575 and 671. Agricultural pro- curement employment is given in P. I. Vakhrin, Formirovaniye osnovnykh fondov kooperativnoy torgovli, Moscow, Ekonomika, 1974, p. 14. Wholesale trade and material-technical supply employment are derived as a residual. The annual wage bill implied for each branch by the average monthly wage rates and 96 Approved for Release: 2019/07/19 C05210421
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