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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-15
Distribution of Profits by Sector of Origin, 1970
(1)
Reported
Profits
(billion
rubles)
(2)
Bonuses
(billion
rubles)
(3)
“Net”
Profits
(billion
rubles)
(4)
Adjustment
Factor for
Industrial
Profits
(5)
Adjusted
“Net”
Profits
(billion
rubles)
(6)
Other
Net
Income
(billion
rubles)
(7)
Total
Profits
(billion
rubles)
Total 84.621 5.030 79.591 79.591 9.563 89.154
Industry 55.695 3.310 52.385 1.000 52.385 O 52.385
Ferrous metals 3.999 0.238 3.761 0.892 3.355 O 3.355
Nonferrous metals 2.699 0.160 2.539 0.914 2.321 O 2.321
Fuels 5.229 0.311 4.918 0.786 3.866 O 3.866
Electric power 3.601 0.214 3.387 0.731 2.476 O 2.476
Machinery 13.850 0.823 13.027 1.089 14.186 O 14.186
Chemicals 3.708 0.220 3.488 1.126 3.927 O 3.927
Wood, pulp, and paper 2.579 0.153 2.426 1.289 3.127 O 3.127
Constniction materials 1.611 0.096 1.515 1.057 1.601 O 1.601
Light industry 6.685 0.397 6.288 1.000 6.288 O 6.288
Food industry 7.350 0.437 6.913 0.998 6.899 C 6.899
Other industry 4.384 0.261 4.123 1.052 4.339 O 4.339
Construction 4.736 0.282 4.454 4.454 O 4.454
Agriculture 4.935 0.293 4.642 4.642 .\' cc LII NI 12.494
Transportation 10.718 0.637 10.081 10.081 O 10.081
Communications 0.840 0.050 0.790 0.790 O 0.790
Trade 5.737 0.341 5.396 5.396 1.283 6.679
Services 1.860 0.111 1.749 1.749 0.428 2.177
Housing 0 0 0 0 0 0
Utilities 0.770 0.046 0.724 0.724 0 0.724
Repair and personal care 0.400 0.024 0.376 0.376 0 0.376
Recreation 0.040 0.002 0.038 0.038 0.428 0.466
Education 0 0 0 0 0 0
Health 0 0 0 0 O 0
Science . 0.100 0.006 0.094 0.094 O 0.094
Credit and insurance 0.550 0.033 0.517 0.517 O 0.517
Government administrative services 0 0 0 0 O 0
General agricultural programs 0 0 0 0 O 0
Forestry O O O Q O O
State administration
and the administrative
organs of social organizations
O O O O O Q
Culture O O O O O O
Municipal services O O O O O O
Civilian police Q O O O O O
Military personnel O O O O O O
Other branches .0 100 § 9 094 Q .094 O .° 094
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