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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. 36 …In the USSR the collective farm, or kolkhoz, is part state and part cooperative. The land…
  • p. 47 …0.66e_ Consumer cooperatives 1.283 i Retained profits of consumer cooperatives 0.821 Tax on…
  • p. 50 …Hill, The Measurement of Real Product, The Organization for Economic Cooperation and Development, Paris, 1971; R…
  • p. 103 …Net profits of consumer cooperatives were included with retail trade and public dining. Subsidies. This item…
  • p. 118 …and economic admin- istration, administrative organs of cooperative and social organizations,” for which employment and oth…
  • p. 119 …Social organi- zations include the administrative organs of the All- Union Society of Consumer Cooperatives, the…
  • p. 130 …The profits distributed to consumer cooperative members are now considered to be a transfer receipt rather…
  • p. 133 …Profits distributed to consumer cooperative members 0.027 9. Total income 217.206 Sources to this…
  • p. 134 …Profits distributed to consumer cooperative members. See CIA, GNP I970, p. 23. 9. Total income. This…
  • p. 135 …State, cooperative, and commission sales 141.096 (1)Fo0d 84.104 (2) Soft goods 42.734…
  • p. 137 …Charges paid by members of housing 0.075 cooperatives for maintenance lmputed gross rent on urban…
  • p. 138 …Taxes on land and buildings owned by individuals and cooperatives are from Gosb_vudzhet I972, p…
  • p. 139 …Retained profits of consumer cooperatives 0.821 d. Retained profits of other organizations 0.321 2…
  • p. 142 …Profits distributed to consumer 0.027 cooperative members 8.’C;solidate_d total outlays 215.841…
  • p. 147 …Consumer cooperatives 1.283 (1) Retained profits of consumer cooperatives 0.821 (2) Tax on income…
  • p. 160 …532) plus a share of the amortization deductions of consumer cooperatives. Altough consumer cooperatives are primarily…
  • p. 162 …532) and amortization deductions of consumer cooperatives on industrial capital (0.083 billion ru~ bles-—see…
  • p. 164 …retained profits and income taxes of consumer cooperatives and other organizations, respectively. 7. Total pra/its…
  • p. 257 …Other state purchasing orga- nizations are the Central Union of Consumer Cooper- atives, and the Ministries…
  • p. 286 …Review of I978 and Outlook for I97 9, Economics, Statistics, and Cooperatives Service, April 1979, p…
  • p. 330 …exceeded the prices paid in state and cooperative retail outlets by an average of ~59 percent…
  • p. 331 …index of retail prices in state and cooperative outlets. The index which shows almost no change…
  • p. 332 …In coverage, it differs from the CIA index of consumption, mainly by inclusion of cooperative housing…
  • p. 335 …purchases of these items in state and cooperative retail outlets and in collective farm markets, including…
  • p. 339 …The index implicitly covers all goods purchased in state and cooperative retail out- lets, except those…
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Meat Llvestock Investories, l January
Unrounded data for total meat production are readily 1980 Pravda 26 January 1980
available in Soviet statistical handbooks. Unroundcd 1979 Narkhoz 1978 pp 246 247
production statistics for each individual type of meat 1966 1971 1976 78 Narkhoz I 977 pp 256-257
appear less consistently. Production of individual 1972-75 Narkhoz I 975 pp 391 392 395
types is subtracted from the official figure for total 1951 1961 65 1967 70 Selkhoz I971 pp 246-249
meat output to derive “other” meat production. Stat- 272
istics on total meat production are taken from: 1954 60 Selkhoz I960 pp 266 269 320, and Nark-
1979: Vest stat, no. 9, 1980, p. 79. hoz I960 p 457
1978: Vest stat, no. 10, 1979, p. 78. 1953 Zhivotnovodstvo SSSR Moscow 1959 pp 29
1954 77: Vest stat, no. 6, 1979, p. 66. 31 33
1953: Selkhoz I960, p. 338. 1950 1952 Narkhoz I967 p 425 Figures for po -
1951-52: Zhivotnovodstvo SSSR, Moscow, 1959, pf try flocks for 1950 1952 1953, and 1956 are
161.
1950: Selkhoz I960, p. 289.
Production statistics for individual types of meat were
drawn from the following sources.
1979: Vest stat, no. 9, 1980, p. 79.
1978: Vest stat, no. 10, 1979, p. 78.
1977: Vest stat, no. 10, 1978, p. 95.
1976: Vest stat, no. 9, 1977, p. 93.
1975: Narkhoz I978, p. 250.
1973-74: Vest stat, no. 10, 1975, p. 95.
1972: Vest stat, no. 10, 1974, p. 93.
1971: Proizvodstvo produktov zhivotnovodstva v
I972 godu, Moscow, 1973, p. 10.
1950, 1960-1970: Selkhoz I971, p. 290
1953, 1956-59: Selkhoz 1960, p. 333-335.
1954-55: Zhivotnovodstvo SSSR, Moscow, 1959, p.
159.
1951-52: Except for pork, statistics are from Narkhoz
I967, p. 332. The pork figure is found in Zhivotno-
vodstvo SSSR, Moscow, 1959, p. 162.
interpolated
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