USSR: Measures of Economic Growth and Development, 1950-80

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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Appendix A contains the detailed statistical results of
this study. Appendixes B and C document the meth-
odologies used to construct those individual sector-of-
origin and end-use indexes not described elsewhere.
Appendix D describes the revisions in the 1970 estab-
lished-price accounts, and appendix E describes the
methodology used to convert the 1970 established-
price values to a factor-cost basis.
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