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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. 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…
Appendix A
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Table A-1
The SPIOER Sample:
Products, Units, and Key Sources
Ferrous metals branch
Ferrous ores sector
Manganese ore Tons Narkhoz
Iron ore Tons Narkhoz _ W
Ferrous metals sector
Cast iron Tons Narkhoz
Rails and rail accessories Tons Narkhoz
Wire rod Tons Narkhoz
Plain wire Tons Narkhoz
Seamless pipe and tube Tons Narkhoz _ f
Welded pipe and tube Tons Narkhoz
Heavy section pipe and tube Tons Narkhoz
Light section pipe and tube Tons
Steel plate Tons Narkhoz _ i
Hot rolled sheet Tons Narkhoz
Cold rolled sheet Tons Narkhoz
Electrical sheet Tons Narkhoz
Z
Tinplatc Tons Narkhoz
Galvanized sheet Tons Narkhoz
“H” I:
Products for reprocessing Tons Narkhoz
Coke products sector
Coke products (coking coal used as proxy) Tons Narkhoz
Refractory materials sector
Fire clay Tons Narkhoz, Estimate
Dinas Tons Narkhoz, Estimate
Magnesite and chrome magnesite items Tons Narkhoz, Estimate
Magnesite powder/ metallurgical Tons Narkhoz, Estimate
Nonferrous metals branch
Nonferrous metals sector
Copper Tons Estimate
Lead Tons Estimate
Zinc Tons Estimate
Tin Tons Estimate
Aluminum Tons Estimate
Magnesium Tons Estimate
Titanium Tons Estimate
Nickel Tons Estimate
Antimony Tons Estimate
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