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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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B-2. Derivation of the Index of Purchases of Construction Materials by
the Construction Sector
B-3. Derivation of the Implicit Construction Price Index
B-4. Derivation of an Implicit Price Index for Investment in New
Construction and Other Capital Outlays
B-5. Selected Purchases by Agriculture of Material Inputs From
Nonagricultural Sectors in 1972
B-6. Derivation of the Index of Purchases of Nonagricultural Material
Inputs by Agriculture
B-7. Derivation of the Index of Value Added in Agriculture
B-8. Gross Output, Total Material Purchases, and Value Added in
Agriculture
B-9. Data Relating to the Activity of Various Modes of Freight
Transportation
B-10. Derivation of the Index of Value Added in Transportation
B-11 Valuation of Farm Household Consumption in Kind in 1970 Prices
B-12 Valuation of Collective Farm Ex-Village Market and Commission
Sales in 1970 Prices
B-13 Derivation of the Retail Trade Index
B-14. Derivation of the Wholesale Trade Index
B-15 Computation of the Weights for the Agricultural Procurement
Index
B-16 Derivation of the Agricultural Procurement Index
B-17 Derivation of the Index of Value Added in Trade
B-18 Derivation of the Index of Material Purchases by Science
B-19 Derivation of the Index of Value Added in Science
B-20 Derivation of the Index of Value Added in Credit and Insurance
B-21 Man-Hour Employment in Government Administrative Services
C-1. Derivation of the Index of Investment in Machinery and Equipment
C-2. Derivation of Investment in New Construction and Other Capital
Outlays
C-3. Derivation of the Index of Capital Repair Expenditures
C-4. Estimated Soviet Defense Expenditures, 1951-80
D-1. Soviet Household Incomes, 1970
D-2. Soviet Household Outlays, 1970
D-3. Soviet Public-Sector Incomes, 1970
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