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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. 184 …Metalwares, metal structurals, light industry and processed food industry machinery and equipment, and mineral chemicals are…
  • p. 271 …meals, fish meal, and vitamin and mineral supplements as well as ground hay and other materials…
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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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