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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. 36 …In the USSR the collective farm, or kolkhoz, is part state and part cooperative. The land…
  • p. 47 …0.66e_ Consumer cooperatives 1.283 i Retained profits of consumer cooperatives 0.821 Tax on…
  • p. 50 …Hill, The Measurement of Real Product, The Organization for Economic Cooperation and Development, Paris, 1971; R…
  • p. 103 …Net profits of consumer cooperatives were included with retail trade and public dining. Subsidies. This item…
  • p. 118 …and economic admin- istration, administrative organs of cooperative and social organizations,” for which employment and oth…
  • p. 119 …Social organi- zations include the administrative organs of the All- Union Society of Consumer Cooperatives, the…
  • p. 130 …The profits distributed to consumer cooperative members are now considered to be a transfer receipt rather…
  • p. 133 …Profits distributed to consumer cooperative members 0.027 9. Total income 217.206 Sources to this…
  • p. 134 …Profits distributed to consumer cooperative members. See CIA, GNP I970, p. 23. 9. Total income. This…
  • p. 135 …State, cooperative, and commission sales 141.096 (1)Fo0d 84.104 (2) Soft goods 42.734…
  • p. 137 …Charges paid by members of housing 0.075 cooperatives for maintenance lmputed gross rent on urban…
  • p. 138 …Taxes on land and buildings owned by individuals and cooperatives are from Gosb_vudzhet I972, p…
  • p. 139 …Retained profits of consumer cooperatives 0.821 d. Retained profits of other organizations 0.321 2…
  • p. 142 …Profits distributed to consumer 0.027 cooperative members 8.’C;solidate_d total outlays 215.841…
  • p. 147 …Consumer cooperatives 1.283 (1) Retained profits of consumer cooperatives 0.821 (2) Tax on income…
  • p. 160 …532) plus a share of the amortization deductions of consumer cooperatives. Altough consumer cooperatives are primarily…
  • p. 162 …532) and amortization deductions of consumer cooperatives on industrial capital (0.083 billion ru~ bles-—see…
  • p. 164 …retained profits and income taxes of consumer cooperatives and other organizations, respectively. 7. Total pra/its…
  • p. 257 …Other state purchasing orga- nizations are the Central Union of Consumer Cooper- atives, and the Ministries…
  • p. 286 …Review of I978 and Outlook for I97 9, Economics, Statistics, and Cooperatives Service, April 1979, p…
  • p. 330 …exceeded the prices paid in state and cooperative retail outlets by an average of ~59 percent…
  • p. 331 …index of retail prices in state and cooperative outlets. The index which shows almost no change…
  • p. 332 …In coverage, it differs from the CIA index of consumption, mainly by inclusion of cooperative housing…
  • p. 335 …purchases of these items in state and cooperative retail outlets and in collective farm markets, including…
  • p. 339 …The index implicitly covers all goods purchased in state and cooperative retail out- lets, except those…
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Table D-14
Distribution of Amortization Deductions by Branch of Industry, 1970
Fixed Capital _ 46.160 7~L-.-_.. __-§.é5_‘l..___ 3}?lyiachi 22." __i_'_H 7 _
Chem_ic§A_>_' y
16.3 __ 18.7’ _*__17.140 7.(>__W_ 1.200_ __”7._55oW _ W
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.W99d-P"lP~299.2aP" ___ 11.2 __7_1#2‘.y2__‘__ 11.550 10.0 1.155 7.266 1.136
Construction materials 12.3 _ 13.7 _ _12.790_ 8-0 1°23..- .___§~.“_3_°...-.._. . 11°96...
iii ht industr_y_ 8.4 9.3 8.715 6.7 0.584 3.674 7
3 _ .
food iridustryiiw _ 17.9 _‘____1s.9 18.250
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7.5 1.369 8.613 1.346
Other industry 11.8 11.2 11. 590 6.3 0.728 4.580 0.716
Sources for this table:
l. Fixed capital—end 1969. This item represents the fixed capital
of industry in 1955 prices on 1 January 1970. All values, except for
nonferrous metals and other industry, are from Constance B.
Krueger, USSR: Gross Fixed Capital, unpublished, May 1976,
table 3. The capital stock of nonferrous metals is assumed to be
one-half that of ferrous metals. The capital stock of other industry
is derived as a residual.
2. Fixed capitaI—end I970. This item is derived in the same
manner as column 1.
3. Fixed capita1—average 1970. Each entry is computed as column
l plus 35 percent of the difference between column 2 and column l.
This is the formula used by Gosplan to compute the average value
of fixed capital and reflects the fact that more than half of new
fixed capital is commissioned in the second half of the year
(Ukazaniya, p. 27).
157
4. Depreciation rate.This is derived from Narkhoz I970, p. 171.
except for nonferrous metals and other industry. Nonferrous metals
is determined from the ferrous metals rate of 7.2 percent, and the
ratio of the nonferrous metals and ferrous metals depreciation rates
in the 1966 1-O table. The other industry rate is determined as
column 5 divided by column 3.
5. Depreciation. This is column 3 times column 4 except for other
industry, which is derived as a residual.
6. Structure af depreciation. This is column 5 in percentage terms.
7. Adjusted depreciation. Depreciation for total industry is derived
as the sum of reported amortization deduction in industry (l5.544
billion rubles—Narkh0z I978, p. 532) and amortization deductions
of consumer cooperatives on industrial capital (0.083 billion ru~
bles-—see the sources to column 2 of table D-13).
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