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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. 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 A-1 (continued)
The SPIOER Sample:
Products, Units, and Key Sources
Mercury Ton Estimate
_ Cadmium Tons Estimate
~_ Tungsten (60%wo3) Tons Estimate
Molybdenum Tons Estimate
Fuels branch
Coal sector
Coking coal Tons Narkhoz
_ Lignite Tons Narkhoz
_I:Joncoking hard coal Tons Narkhoz
Oil extraction sector
if Oil (including gas condensate) Tons Narkhoz
Oil refining sector
Refined products Tons Estimate
G_as sector
Natural gas from wells Cubic meter Narkhoz,
Estimate
Journals,
Asociated natural gas Cubic meter Narkhoz,
Estimate
Journals,
Pe-atisector
W
Peat Tons of
standard fuel
Narkhoz
Oil shales sector
Oil shale Tons of
standard fuel
Narkhoz
Electric power branch
_Electric power sector
‘__ Electric power distributed from busbars Kilowatt-hours Narkhoz
Machinery branch
Energy and power machinery sector
Efi§{Qi}n boilers (high capacity) Tons / hours Narkhoz, Estimate
Steam boilers (medium capacity) Tons / hours Narkhoz, Estimate
M Steamwboilers(low_capacity) Tons / hours Estimate
Steam and gas turbines Kilowatt Narkhoz, Estimate
Hydraulic turbines Kilowatt Narkhoz, Estimate
Electrotechnical machinery and equipment sector
Generators (steam and gas turbines) Kilowatt Narkhoz, Estimate
Generators hydraulic turbines Kilowatt Narkhoz, Estimate
Electric motors over 100 kilowatt Kilowatt Narkhoz
Power transformers Kilowatt-amps
i_‘Electric bulbs Units Narkhoz
Machine tools sector
ml Meta? cutting machine tools Rubles Narkhoz
Forge presses sector
Forge press machine tools Rubles Narkhoz
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