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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 7
Rankings of Industrial Branches by Growth Rates
W 1951-ss 1956-so 1961-as 1966-vo
7 197—1_1s'“_“ii>76-so
Ferrous metals
SPIOER
Official
4 7 4 7
6 5 5 7
6 7
8 7
Fuels
SPIOER
Official
8 4 6 8
7 6 7 7
s 4
s 5 _
Electric power
SPIOER
Official
2 2 2 2
4 3 3 3
3 2
4 3
Chemicals and petrochemicals
SPIOER
Official
3 3 1 1
2 4 1 l
1 3
?____ A 2 ______ ____,_, W
Wood, pulp, and paper
SPIOER
Official
9 9 9 9
9 8 8 9
9 9
7 9
Construction materials B
SPIOER
Official
1 1 7 6
l 1 4 4
4 6
3 6
Machinery
SPIOER
Official
7 6 3 4
3 2 2 2
2 1
l 1
Light industry
SPIOER
Official
5 8 8 3
5 9 9 5
8 5
9 4
Processed food
_ SPIOER
Official
6 5 5 5
8 7 6 6
7 8
6 8
Spearman’s Rank
Correlation Coefficient b
Sum of Squared
Differences C
0.75 0.73 0.87 0.88 0.88 0.97
30 32 16 16 14 4
3 For the official series, the construction materials branch is a
combination of the published construction materials and glass and
porcelain indexes.
b F reund, Modern Elementary Statistics, pp. 364-366.
C The sum of squared differences derived in the Spearman Rank
Order Correlation test is significant at 99-percent level of confidence
if the value is less than 20. For a discussion of the significance test,
see James V. Bradley, Distribution-Free Statistical Tests, (Engle-
wood Cliffs, New Jersey: Prentice-Hall, [nc., 1968), pp. 93-95, 314.
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