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USSR: Measures of Economic Growth and Development, 1950-80

Central Intelligence Agency · 1982-12-08 · 399 pages · text from the file's own layer

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.

  • p. 36 …In the USSR the collective farm, or kolkhoz, is part state and part cooperative. The land…
  • p. 47 …0.66e_ Consumer cooperatives 1.283 i Retained profits of consumer cooperatives 0.821 Tax on…
  • p. 50 …Hill, The Measurement of Real Product, The Organization for Economic Cooperation and Development, Paris, 1971; R…
  • p. 103 …Net profits of consumer cooperatives were included with retail trade and public dining. Subsidies. This item…
  • p. 118 …and economic admin- istration, administrative organs of cooperative and social organizations,” for which employment and oth…
  • p. 119 …Social organi- zations include the administrative organs of the All- Union Society of Consumer Cooperatives, the…
  • p. 130 …The profits distributed to consumer cooperative members are now considered to be a transfer receipt rather…
  • p. 133 …Profits distributed to consumer cooperative members 0.027 9. Total income 217.206 Sources to this…
  • p. 134 …Profits distributed to consumer cooperative members. See CIA, GNP I970, p. 23. 9. Total income. This…
  • p. 135 …State, cooperative, and commission sales 141.096 (1)Fo0d 84.104 (2) Soft goods 42.734…
  • p. 137 …Charges paid by members of housing 0.075 cooperatives for maintenance lmputed gross rent on urban…
  • p. 138 …Taxes on land and buildings owned by individuals and cooperatives are from Gosb_vudzhet I972, p…
  • p. 139 …Retained profits of consumer cooperatives 0.821 d. Retained profits of other organizations 0.321 2…
  • p. 142 …Profits distributed to consumer 0.027 cooperative members 8.’C;solidate_d total outlays 215.841…
  • p. 147 …Consumer cooperatives 1.283 (1) Retained profits of consumer cooperatives 0.821 (2) Tax on income…
  • p. 160 …532) plus a share of the amortization deductions of consumer cooperatives. Altough consumer cooperatives are primarily…
  • p. 162 …532) and amortization deductions of consumer cooperatives on industrial capital (0.083 billion ru~ bles-—see…
  • p. 164 …retained profits and income taxes of consumer cooperatives and other organizations, respectively. 7. Total pra/its…
  • p. 257 …Other state purchasing orga- nizations are the Central Union of Consumer Cooper- atives, and the Ministries…
  • p. 286 …Review of I978 and Outlook for I97 9, Economics, Statistics, and Cooperatives Service, April 1979, p…
  • p. 330 …exceeded the prices paid in state and cooperative retail outlets by an average of ~59 percent…
  • p. 331 …index of retail prices in state and cooperative outlets. The index which shows almost no change…
  • p. 332 …In coverage, it differs from the CIA index of consumption, mainly by inclusion of cooperative housing…
  • p. 335 …purchases of these items in state and cooperative retail outlets and in collective farm markets, including…
  • p. 339 …The index implicitly covers all goods purchased in state and cooperative retail out- lets, except those…
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Table B-12
Valuation of Collective Farm Ex—Village Market and Commission Sales in 1970 Prices
T 8*“
Price
(rubles per
ton)
1950 1955 1960 1966 1970 1974 T95?
Grain 248
Thousand tons 3,290 2,330 2,270 2,100 2,004 1,500 1,500
Billion rubles 0.816 0.578 0.563 0.521 0.497 0.372 0.372
Potatoes 1 79
Thousand tons 6,460 6,530 5,690 5,610 6,002 5,910 5,960
Billion rubles 1.156 1.169 1.019 1 .004 1.074 1.058 1.067
Vegetables 381
Thousand tons 1,560 1,940 1,580 1,460 1,781 1,790 1,138
Billion rubles 0.594 0.739 0.602 0.556 0.679 0.682 0.434
Meat: slaughter weight
Thousand tons 793 776 686 894 1,093 900 1,060
Meat 2,378
Thousand tons 646 629 558 716 884 713 866
Billion rubles 1.537 1.495 1.326 1.703 2.103 1.695 2.059
Animal fat 1,900
Thousand tons 121 128 110 155 178 157 162
Billion rubles 0.229 0.243 0.210 0.294 0.339 0.298 0.308
Milk 316
Thousand tons 2,420 2,860 1,860 1,360 1,048 910 958
Billion rubles 0.765 0.904 0.588 0.430 0.331 0.288 0.303
Eggs 126 H
Million 1,370 3,140 3,170 2,780 2,522 2,130 1,963
Billion rubles 0.173 0.396 0.399 0.350 0.318 0.268 0.247
Total (billion rubles) 5.270 5.523 4.707 4.858 5.340 4.660 4.790
3 The price of eggs is 126 rubles per thousand eggs.
Sources: The quantities for 1950, 1955, and 1960 are taken from
Jerzy F. Karcz, “Quantitative Analysis of the Collective Farm
Market,” American Economic Review 54, June 1964, unpublished
appendix. The quantities for 1966 are derived by extending the
Karcz series by means of commodity indexes for collective-larm-
market sales presented in Narkhoz I968, p. 654. The quantities for
1970, 1974, and 1976 are calculated as in CIA, GNP I970—that is,
marketed output less all procurements and the difference, if any,
between the physical and accounting weight of procurements. The
prices are from CIA, GNP I970, pp. 32-35
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