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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. 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-1 1 (Continued)
Distribution of Social Insurance Deductions by Sector of Origin, 1970
Unadjusted Adjustments for
Social
 ”"WY6>l "T
Insurance Repair and Housing- Recreation Civilian Trans-
Police portationPersonal
Care
Communal
Economy
(7)
Adjusted
Social
Insurance
Forestry 0.020 0 0 0 0 0 0.020
State administration and the 0.149 0
administrative organs of
social organizations
0 0 0 0 0.149
0.046 OCulture 0 O 0 O 0.046
0 .
OMunicipal services 0.021 O 0 O 0.021
OCivilian police 0 0 O 0.086 O 0.086
0.240 OMilitary personnel 0 O 0 O 0.240
0.196 OOther branches 0 O 0.086 O 0.110
Sources to this table."
1. Unadjusted social insurance. This is derived from table D-12
except for the values for the total and for agriculture. The
agriculture entry is derived as the agriculture value in table D-12
plus: (1) collective farm payments into the All-Union Social Insur-
ance Fund for Collective Farmers (0.356 billion rubles—CIA, GNP
I970, p. 46); (2) collective farm payments into the All-Union Social
Security Fund for Collective Farmers (0.780 billion rubles—Ibid);
and (3) social insurance charges paid on wages of hired agricultural
workers (0.018 billion rubles——Ibid, p. 66). The value for the total
entry is the sum of the entries in column l. The line item data from
table D-12 are assigned to the same GNP categories as were the
wage data in table D-8.
2-6. Adjustments to social insurance deductions. The adjustments
made to the social insurance deductions are analogous to the
adjustments made to the wage bill in table D-8.
7. Adjusted social insurance. This was derived as the sum of
columns 1 through 6.
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