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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-13 Billion Rubles Except as Noted
Depreciation by Sector of Origin, 1970
(1) (2)
Employment Depreciation
in Khozraschet
Enterprises
(million persons)
<3)
7
Housing
Depreciation
(4)
Depreciation
Net of Housing
Depreciation
Total 69.856 31.827 1.318 31.827
Industry 30.718 15.472 0.579 14.893
Ferrous metals 1.381 1.456 0.026 1.430
Nonferrous metals 0.676 0.811 0.013 0.798
Fuels 1.574 2.351 0.030 2.321
Electric power 0.642 1.614 0.012 1.602
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Machinery 12.060 3.475 0.228 3.247
Chemicals 1.591 1.180 0.030 1.150
Wood, pulp, and paper 2.862 1.131 0.054 1.077
Construction materials 2.290 1.006 0.043 0.963
Light industry 4.160 0.518 0.078 0.440
Food industry 2.937 1.346 0.055 1.291
Other industry 0.545 0.584 0.010 0.574
Construction 9.412 2.325 0.178 2.147
Agriculture 9.628 5.713 0.182 5.531
Transportation 6.319 5.200 0.119 5.081
Communications 1.330 0.408 0.025 0.383
Trade 7.624 1.467 0.144 1.323
Services 4.825 1.196 0.091 2.423
Housing 0 0 0 1.318
Utilities 0.524 0.318 0.010 0.308
Repair and personal care 1.783 0.227 0.034 0.193
Recreation 1.050 0.304 0.020 0.284
Education 0 0 0 0
Health 0 0 0 0
Science 1.080 0.185 0.020 0.165
Credit and insurance 0.388 0.162 0.007 0.155
Government administrative services 0 0 0 0
General agricultural programs 0
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0 0 0
Forestry O O O O
State administration and the administrative organs of social
organizations
O O O O
Culture O O O O
Municipal services O O O O
Civilian police O O O O
Military personnel O O Q O
Other branches O Q .046 O .041"
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