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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.
“United Press”16 pages
- 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 ll
SPIOER and Official Industrial Indexes:
Comparisons of Secular Growth Patterns 8
1951-55 1956-60 1961-65 1966-70 1971-75 1976-80
Ferrous metals
SPIOER
Official
86
83
188
175
129
128
122
1116
68
74
19
*-
28
Fuels
SPIOER
Official
149
153
141
129
100
98
79
86
‘
79
89
52
44
Electric power
SPIOER
Official
142
143
124
130
125
122
86
89
76
70
49
50
Chemicals and petrochemicals
SPIOER
Official
114
100
130
120
97
102
126
144
93
88
4 1
58 ___ , ,,
Wood, pulp, and paper
SPIOER
Official
211
151
166
142
74
91
83
100
74
95
-3
2v
Construction materials
SPIOER
Official
184
169
196
169
68
88
71
83
68
72
22
24
Machinery
SPIOER
Official
105
115
99
100
92
94
128
135
105 72
94_ 66
Light industry
SPIOER
Official
121
108
49
41
136
134
196
192
51
72
49
53
Processed food
SPIOER
Official
173
159
142
125
115
114
100
94
66
8@ 28
12
Total industry
SPIOER
Official
97
99
150
151 120
122 93
97
87
86
50
51
*1 Each value is the ratio of the period average to the postwar average.
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