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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…
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Table A-1 (continued)
Precision instruments sector
_ Instruments of time Rubles i Narkhoz
Other instruments and computers Rubles Narkhoz
E
Metallurgical and mining machinery and equipment sector
Metallurgy machinery and equipment except rolling mills Tons Narkhoz
E if W
Rolling mill equipment Tons
n Narkhoz
_ Coal combines Units Narkhoz
Coal cutting machines Units Narkhoz
Mine loading machines Units W Narkhoz
Electric mine locomotives Units "Narkhoz
ff Petroleum equipment / refinery Tons Narkhoz, Estimate Wfiflfw
Deep-well pumps Units
i Narkhoz
Turbodrills Units Narkhoz
A 'hzV K
W Pumps and compressors sector
Refrigerators Units Narkhoz
CheLn_ical equipment Rubles Narkhoz
7 Log_a7nd paper machinery and equipment sector
fir Log and paper machinery and equipment _ Index _V Narkhoz
V
Light-industry machinery and equipment sector
Light-industry machinery and equipment Rubles t
Na'kl‘§’£___, t_,
Food-industry machinery and equipment sector
__ Food-industry machinery and equipment Rubles Narkhoz
Printing machinery and equipment sector
Printing-industry machinery and equipment Rubles Narkhoz fir’? f f
Hoist-transport equipment sector
Railroad cranes Units Narkhoz
Truck cranes Units Narkhoz
Tower cranes. Units , t _ Y:‘a"<l1q;___t__e,_ ,t
Pneumatic tire cranes Units __ Yytklol _. W,
Electric bridge cranes Units Narkhoz
Elevators Units
—-WW M
N3fkh(;Z
A-'7'" 7 if
Construction machinery and equipment sector
_ Excavators / multibucket
l
Units "fl '§<3rkhéz1_E§1imaIéQI_'7
0. 15- to 0.20-cubic-meter single-bucket excavators Units -_ N2.'kh%§S*itm?t*stE
0.25- to 0.30-cubic-meter single-bucket excavators Units Narkhoz. Estimate
0.35- to 0.80-cubic-meter single-bucket excavators Units
M" NarIi§L£,i§§tim§;i§i”i
P
l- to l.25-cubic-meter single-bucket excavators
— i U-nits ,,___ ~=17k3<5_1»
1.4- to 2.5-cubic-meter single-bucket excavators Units "W Narkho_z, Estimate‘
M
3- to 8-cubic-meter single-bucket excavators Units __ Narkhozéiiitimaterfi mi
A l0 and more single-bucket excavators Units Narkhoz, Estimate
Bulldozers _ Units W: Narkhoz Qflim Z’
Scrapers Units Naaliol _W___,,H ,
Motor graders _ i Units E Narkhel __t__,___t
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