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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.

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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-9
State Wages and Salaries, 1970
. (1)
Average Annual
Employment
(million
persons)
Average
Monthly
Wage
(rubles)
T27 K 1
5155* 1*" M
State Wage
Bill
(billion
rubles)
Total 90.186 122.0 132.032
Industry 31.593 133.3 50.549
Ferrous metals 1.359 153.4 2.502
Nonferrous metals 0.663 . 191.8 1.526
Fuels 1.542 198.0 3.663
Electric power 0.633 138.2 1.050
Machinery 12.017 134.4 19.378
Chemicals 1.568 136.9 2.575
Wood, pulp, and paper 2.848 135.3 4.623
Construction materials 2.258 137.1 3.714
Light industry 5.019 103.3 6.219
Food industry 2.901 118.5 4.125
Other industry 0.785 124.6 1.174
Construction 9.052 149.9 i __l6.283
Agriculture 8.833 100.9 10.695
Transportation 7.985 136.7 13.099
Communications 1.330 96.8 1.545
Trade 7.537 95.1 8.601
Other branches of material production 0.998 171.1 __ 2.049
Housing-communal economy 3.052 94.5 3.461
Art 0.412 94.8 0.469
Education 7.246 108.1 9.400
Health 5.080 92.0 5.608
Science 2.999 139.5
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5.020
Credit and insurance 0.388 111.4 0.519
General agricultural programs 0.586 102.5 0.721
Forestry 0.433 88.0 __ _ 0.451
State administration and the administrative organs of 1.838
social organizations
123.2 2.717
Culture 0.824 84.8 0.839
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