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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. 57 …The freight transportation index is a weight- ed average of rail, sea, inland-waterway, oil-pipeline…
  • p. 98 …W Sea 0.263 per tkm Ibid, p. 1_5_1. Wig Inland water 0.418…
  • p. 99 …Mode Physical Measure Sources Ilail, inland water, Ton-kilometers sea, air, and oil pipeline Transport i…
  • p. 100 …Year (1) (2) (3) (4) (5) Rail Sea Inland Water Oil Pipeline Truck (billion tkm) (billion…
  • p. 300 …fed Feed potatoes ~are priced at the sea'sonally low pro- curement-supply price (63 rubles…
  • p. 344 …It is a weighted composite of physical series for 9 modes of transport—rail, sea, river…
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Table D-13 (Continued)
Sources to this table (Continued):
material production sectors (0.659 billion rubles—Narkhoz p. 532).
The other branches depreciation was allocated among these sectors
based on some very rough capital stock estimates as follows:
Billion Rubles
Total 0.659
Recreation 0.266
Science 0.185
Credit and insurance 0.162
Other branches of material production 0.046
3. Housing depreciation. Total housing depreciation is from Yu. V.
Peshekhonov, ed., Razvitiye i finansirovaniye obshchestvennikh
fondov potrebleniya, Moscow, Finansy, 1978, p. 220. Housing
depreciation is not separately identified in the Narkhoz data.
Instead, it is thought to be combined with the depreciation of the sec-
tors that operate the housing. It is assumed here that housing
depreciation is distributed proportionally to employment in khozras-
chef enterprises (column 1).
4. Depreciation net of housing depreciation. This is column 2 less
column 3 except for the total, services, and housing lines. Housing
depreciation is the total line item in column 3. The total and service
lines are the sum of their parts.
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