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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 D-3 (Continued)
Sources to this table (Continued):
Total miscellaneous charges are then computed as the unidenti-
fied current income just derived plus those items enumerated in the
derivation of the residual that represent current income and are not
included elsewhere:
Billion Rubles
90 percent of revised budget income residual 12.8308
Plus:
Price markups on radio and television sets 0.5100
Forestry income 0.4924
Local fees from enterprises 0.4588
Rental income 0.0626
Income from reduction of administrative 1.7000
expenses
Surcharges on spare parts for agricultural 0.7500
machinery
Income from foreign trade 7.5810
Equals:
Miscellaneous charges 24.3856
4. Allowancefor subsidized losses. There have been several revisions
in the estimation of this item. It now consists of the following
subsidies:
Billion Rubles
Total subsidies 22.553
Price differences on the procurement of 13.580
agricultural products by industry
Payments from gross turnover taxes 3.966
Payments from the budget to cover price 0.400
reductions in retail trade
Processed feeds 0.475
Fertilizer 0.365
Agricultural machinery and equipment 0.432
Housing 2.086
_ Budget allocations to the press 0.120
‘Art and radiobroadcasting 0.628
Recreation 0-501
Price differences on the procurement of agricultural products by
industry are from CIA, GNP I970, p. 49, except that a subsidy to
milk products of 0.750 billion rubles has been deducted because it is
now known to be netted against profits (Izvestiya akademii nau/<,
seriya ekonomicheskaya, No. 5, 1975, p. 67 and Vladimir G. Treml,
Agricultural Subsidies in the Soviet Union, p. 24).
Payments from gross turnover taxes are the difference between
gross and net turnover taxes (Gosbyudzhet 1972, pp. 11 and 14). The
subsidies for processed feeds, fertilizer, and agricultural machinery
and equipment are from Vladimir G. Treml, Price Indexesfor Soviet
18-Sector Input-Output Tables, I959-I975, p. 96.
All other subsidies are from CIA, GNP I970, p. 48. Budgetary
outlays on physical culture (0.047 billion rubles) were treated as a
subsidy in CIA, GNP I970. They are now classified as a component
of public- sector outlays on physical culture.
5.Cons0lidated total charges against product, net of depreciation.
This was derived as the sum of items 1 through 4.
6. Depreciation. See CIA, GNP 1970, p. 49.
7. Consolodated charges against current product. This was derived
as the sum of items 5 and 6.
8. Transfer receipts. See Table D-2, item 7.
9. Consolidated net income. This was derived as the sum of items 7
and 8.
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