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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. 18 …Power, United Nations International Comparisons Project, Phase I (Baltimore, The Johns Hopkins University Press, 1975) ICP…
  • p. 19 …Oleg 1-Ioeffding, Soviet National Income and Product in 1928, Columbia University Press, New York, 1954…
  • p. 21 …In theory, the Soviets " Basic Principles of the System of Balances of the National Economy, United…
  • p. 50 …Lawrence Grose, Real Output Measurement in the United States National Income and Product Accounts, US Department…
  • p. 166 …The subsidies on housing, recreation, and the press were allocated to the housing, recreation, and other…
  • p. 181 …Duke University Press, 1972), pp. 155-194; with Wade Robertson, “Industrial Production in the USSR," Soviet…
  • p. 183 …tons, square meters, units of production, or some other convention- al measure. Examples of this type…
  • p. 210 …For example, the production of commodities pub- lished in physical units includes intraplant turnover, but the…
  • p. 222 …bulbs Units Narkhoz Machine tools sector ml Meta? cutting machine tools Rubles Narkhoz Forge presses sector…
  • p. 249 …Hardt, eds., Soviet Economic Statistics, Durham, N.C., Duke University Press, 1972 Treml and Hardt U…
  • p. 261 …Khrushchev stat- ed that “figures for average yield (of grain) which you read in the press…
  • p. 308 …central press. 8 Because the official data have again been made available to the United States…
  • p. 320 …Power, United Nations International Comparisons Project, Phase I (Baltimore: The Johns Hopkins University Press, 1975) ICP…
  • p. 321 …2 For details, see United Nations, Comparisons ofthe System of National Accounts and the System of…
  • p. 328 …Judging from a mass of anecdotal evidence from the Soviet press concerning the poor quality of…
  • p. 342 …Although the average size of a dwelling unit increased between 1950 and 1978-by 17 percent…
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Table D—4 Billion Rubles
Soviet Public-Sector Outlays, 1970
services 21.268
.1_2i%.9_
sass
c. P M _ i
0.061
2_;§overl1_n]eiit administrative services l 9.030
Vaf.VC|c11era1 agricultural programs 1.004
0.636
3.821
1' CBT"l“,'1aI
a. Education Wi _ i
_l!¢_@_._ _ -,
'
hysical culture
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b. Defense n.e.c., unidentified out- 27.468
W WiI7a‘}’_S3jl>1ld statistical discrepancy
6. Consolidated total value of goods and 191.213
services, exclusive of sales to
. h.<>\1_S_¢_119l<!.S..___..____ _ ___
_ ._ -._-.1i§_%L__,_
Va. Pensmnsvand allowances W_i_V__vv iii 22.300
b. Stipends» M 1.300
Wc.71_nterest payments to households _
1.035
d. Net new bank loans to households -0.034
e. Profits distributed to consumer 0.027
cooperative members
8.’C;solidate_d total outlays 215.841
Sources to this table:
1. Communal services
a. Education. Public-sector outlays on education are estimated at
12.939 billion rubles: the sum of wages (9.400 billion rubles), social
insurance (0.517 billion rubles), and other current outlays (3.993
billion rubles), less parents‘ fees for education (0.971 billion rubles).
137
Q-utlays on Health and Phy;si£a_l Culture V i _
Billion Rubles
Total Physical Health
______W?_-_- ,. .__ _...C}11.wr§,_
Wages and social 5.916 0.637 5.279
l“‘5l"__‘fl5§_____ ,_...___,_i,,*__, ._. _, _, ,
Wa es 5.608 0.604 5.004
SL7“. ._*_ 4“. __ W _____._.___ _,, .
_ Sociagnsurance if 0.033 flf
Olther current outlays 3.106 0.022 3.084
.-____
Other current outlays 0.350 0.350
f1m$L"=fi2@§i.__ _......__W**__ __ ,_ _
§,...__ iQ;5_91_._ 19-.591 .
Parents’ fees -0.542 —0.447 —0.095
¥Z¢I—l““"*'ax”.5Fm 16.6168 Mazes I
Total wages in health and physical culture are derived from
reported employment in health, which includes physical culture
(5.080 million—Narkh0z I978, p. 366), and the average wage rate
(92.0 rubles per month—Ibid. p. 373). Total social insurance is
calculated as 5.5 percent 01' the wage bill (CIA. GNP 1970, p. 53). It
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