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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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List of Standard Citations
Full Citation Abbreviated Citation
USSR Central Statistical Administration, Statistical Handbooks
Narodnoye khozyaystvo SSSR v I9— godu (National Economy of the USSR in l9—) Narkhoz 19-
Se! 'skoye khozyaystvo SSSR, 1960 (Agriculture USSR) Selkhoz I 960
Sel’skoye khozyaystvo SSSR, 1971 (Agriculture USSR) Selkhoz I 971
Sovetskaya torgovlya, 1964 (Soviet Trade) Sov torg I964
Gosudarstvennyy byudzhet SSSR i byudzhety soyuznykh respublik (State Budget of the
USSR and Budgets of the Union Republics)
1961-65
1966-70
1971-75
Gosbyudzhet, I 966
Gosbyudzhet, I972
Gosbyudzhet, I 976
Soviet Periodicals
Voprosy ekonomiki (Problems of Economics) Vop ek
Vestnik statistiki (Herald of Statistics) Vest stat
Ekonomika i organizatsiya promyshlennogo proizvodstva (Economics and Organization of
Industrial Production)
EKO
E konomicheskaya gazeta (Economic Gazette) Ekon gaz
US Government Publications
CIA, USSR: Gross National Product Accounts, I970, A (ER) 75-76, November 1975
CIA, The Soviet Grain Balance, 1960-73, A (ER) 75-68, September 1975
QIA, A Comparison of Consumption in the USSR and the US, January 1964
CIA, GNP I 970
A (ER) 75-68
CIA, A Comparison— 1964
Joint Economic Committee, Congress of the United States,
An Index of Industrial Production in the USSR, 1982
An Index of Agricultural Production in the USSR, 1982
An Index of Consumption in the USSR, 1982
Consumption in the USSR: An International Comparison, 1981
Gross National Product of the USSR: An International Comparison, 1982
Soviet Economic Prospectsfor the Seventies, June 1973
Soviet Economy in a New Perspective, October 1976
Soviet Economy in a Time of Change, October 1979
J EC, Industry
J EC, Agriculture
J EC , Consumption
J EC, Consumption Comparison
J EC, GNP Comparison
JEC, I973
JEC, I976
JEC, 1979
Other Publications
Irving B. Kravis, Zoltan Kenessey, Alan Heston, and Robert Summers, A System of
International Comparisons of Gross Product and Purchasing Power, United Nations
International Comparisons Project, Phase I (Baltimore, The Johns Hopkins University Press,
1975)
ICP, Phase I
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Product and Purchasing Power, United Nations International Comparisons Project, Phase II
(Baltimore, The Johns Hopkins University Press, 1978)
ICP, Phase II
Abraham S. Becker, Soviet National Income, I958-I 964 (Berkeley, University of California
Press, 1969)
Becker, 1969
Abram Bergson, The Real National Income of Soviet Russia Since I 928 (Cambridge, Mass.,
Harvard University Press, 1961)
Bergson, 1961
Abram Bergson, Productivity and the Social System: The USSR and the West (Cambridge,
Mass., Harvard University Press, 1978)
Bergson, 1978
Vladimir G. Treml and John P. Hardt, eds., Soviet Economic Statistics
(Durham, N.C., Duke University Press, 1972)
Treml and Hardt
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