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Table D-2 (Continued)
Sources ta this table (Continued):
Total sales of food include the entire food category in the
enumeration of retail sales by type of good (86168 billion rubles-
Narkhoz I972, p. 584) plus sales of tobacco goods (2.780 billion
rubles-—1bid. p. 585).
Total identified sales of soft goods are derived from the Narkhaz
data (lbid. PD. 584-585) as follows:
Billion Rubles
Total retail sales of soft goods 45.092
Cloth 5.026
Clothing 15.278
Knitwear 8.567
Shoes 7.693
Laundry soap 0.262
Synthetic cleaning materials 0.435
Toilet soap and perfumes 1.176
Haberdashery 3.638
Matches 0.137
Kerosene 0.131
Notebooks and paper 1.015
Publications 1.734
Total identified sales of durables are derived from the Narkhoz data
(lbid, p. S85) as follows:
Billion Rubles
The sales to institutions are allocated as in CIA, GNP I970, pp.
6|-62. The 0.329 billion rubles in the other and unidentified column
represents institutional purchases of window glass and lumber.
cement, and other construction materials. Producer goods sold to
farm households and film rentals are assumed to be in the
unidentified residual. The value of construction materials sold to
households is the difference between: (a) total sales of window glass
and lumber, cement. and other construction materials and (b)
institutional purchases of the same.
Commission sales and sales to rental agencies are believed to
consist mainly of used cars, appliances, furniture, jewelry, and the
like. Since these are durable goods, it is assumed that 80 percent of
these sales are durables and 20 percent are soft goods. The sales of
productive services included in retail sales were divided between
soft goods and durables. Those allocated to soft goods are: shoe
repair, repair and tailoring of clothing, repair of knitwear, dry
cleaning, laundries, and 50 percent of other productive services.
Those allocated to durables are: repair of durables, furniture repair,
photo services, and 50 percent of other productive services. The
remaining unidentified retail sales (4.625 billion rubles) were
allocated approximately equally between soft goods and durables.
b. Collectivefnrm ex-village market sales. The total value of these
sales and their allocation between food and soft goods is from CIA,
GNP I970, pp. 40 and 61-62.
2. Consumer services
a. Housing. The components of this item have been regrouped to
conform more closely with the accounting procedures of the United
States and the United Nations. Expenditures on housing now
consist of:
Total retail sales of durables 14.856
Furniture. carpets, and
metal beds
3.604
Billion Rubles
Total housing expenditures 3.429
Metal dishes 0.961 Gross rent 2.733
Glass dishes 0.617 Cash rent for urban public housing 1.016
Sporting goods 0.542
Radio goods 2.832
Musical instruments 0.281
Toys 0.649
Bicycles and motorbikes 1 .009
Watches 0.578
Jewelry 0.533
Electrical goods 2.050
Sewing machines 0.104
Automobiles 0.520
Other household goods 0.576
Other and unidentified retail sales include: window glass (0.050
billion rubles); lumber, cement, and other construction materials
(1.500 billion rubles); and an unidentified residual (5.282 billion
rubles).
Charges paid by members of housing 0.075
cooperatives for maintenance
lmputed gross rent on urban private and
rural housing
Repair expenditures by tenants of
public housing
This accounting conforms with the US and UN standard, which
treats maintenance expenditures by tenants as a final expenditure
and maintenance expenditures by owner-occupiers as a portion of
gross rent.
1.642
0.696
b. Other services
(I) Utilities are from CIA, GNP I970, p. 41.
(2) Transportation expenditures are reduced from those in CIA,
GNP I970, p. 42 by 25 percent to remove estimated business travel
expenditures.
(3) Communications expenditures are from CIA, GNP I970, p. 42.
(4) Repair and personal care expenditures are derived as the sum of
expenditures on state-provided everyday services (4.481 billion
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