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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 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 132 Approved for Release: 2019/07/19 C05210421
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FOIA release, from the cia-readingroom collection. The PDF is mirrored here; the original link is under it. 399 pages are in the text index: search them above, or from the library's search.