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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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Approved for Release: 2019/07/19 C05210421 Table B-6 Slaughter weight USSR: Derivation of 1970 Average Realized Prices for Individual Types of Meat Table B-7 USSR: Derivation of 1970 Prices for Livestock Inventories Value of Marketings (million rubles)“ Quantities Marketed (thousand tons)b Average Price (rubles per ton)< Weight of Live Price Price per Animal (rubles per ton) b Animal (tons per head) 8 (rubles per head)__~‘_V___V Total meat 22,l0l.4 9,400 2,351 Cattle .309 1,531 442*" 7%Beef 1 1,083.4 4,517 2,454 Hogs .107 1,620 "la. _,_.Pork 7,433.0 3,300 2,252 Sheep and goats .040 _ 935 _ _ 37% MiMutton 1,342.4 736 1,824 Poultry (d) .002 1,896 5 Poultry Other 691.3 1,551.3 655 192 2.368 3,601 H CIA, GNP I970, pp. 32-34 b Quantities of meat in slaughter weight are estimated by multiply- ing liveweight marketings by dressing percentages. Liveweight marketings from the various sales channels are from source a. above, Table A-1, columns C, D, J, and K. The dressing percentages are: beef - 58.3 percent; pork - 71.9 percent; mutton - 51.2 percent; poultry - 80.0 percent; other meat -50 percent. Dressing percentages for beef, pork, and mutton are from l.Ye. Mampel’ and N. Ya. Rayskiy, Spravochnik po priyemke i soderzhaniyu skota na myasokombinatakh, Moscow, 1971, pp. 180-184. Dressing percent- ages for poultry and for other meat (rabbit) are from A.M. Shafran, Tablitsy perescheta zhivogo skota v uboynyy i uboynogo zhivoy, Moscow, 1967, p. 10. ‘ C. Value of marketings divided by quantities sold. Livestock inventories Average realized prices per ton‘ of meat, liveweight, are converted to a price per head basis using the weight of live animals sold to state procurement organizations. The conversion of rubles per ton of live weight to rubles per head is shown in table B-7. Vegetables fed _ _ Feed vegetables are priced at the estimated average ‘realized price for cabbage (95 rubles per ton) which is believed to predominate in vegetables fed. \ Potatoes fed Feed potatoes ~are priced at the sea'sonally low pro- curement-supply price (63 rubles per ton) which is in effect from September through December. The price used applies to the RSFSR, Belorussia, ‘and the Ukraine where 95 percent of potatoes are produced. Prices are reported in M.K. Vasunin and A.S. Davy- dov, Gosudarstvennye zakupi kolkhoznoy produktsii, Moscow, 1978, p. 85. 301 3 Selkhoz I971, p. 328. 1* CIA, GNP 1970, pp. 32-34. E Average weight times price per ton. <1 Live weight per bird is an average of weights for hens and broilers, ducks, geese, and turkeys (S. N. Alekseev, Tovarovedeniye m_vaso- promyshlennykh zhivotnykh, pritsy, i produkrov uboya, Moscow, 1972, pp. 99-108). Average weight figures for hens and broilers, ducks, geese, and turkeys are incorporated into a single average weight figure for all poultry using a percentage distribution of mature birds in poultry flocks by type of bird for 1970 (A. V. Gromova et al., Spravochnik: promyshlennoye ptitsevodsrvo, Mos- cow, 1971, p. 9). _ Whole milk fed Whole milk used for feed is priced at the 1970 average realized price described above. Grain fed ‘ For 1950-59 annual average prices for grain fed (table B-8) are estimated by weighting average real- ized grain prices (table B-1) with weights derived from grain production statistics. For buckwheat, corn, oats, barley, millet, pulses, and other grain, quantities used for seed and a deduction for waste are subtracted from gross output. The percentage distribution of the remaining net output is used to weight average real- ized prices. The major food grains, wheat and rye, as well as rice, are excluded from the calculation. For 1960-'79, quantities of grain used for seed, food, industrial use, and export are subtracted from total supply of each grain (except rice) to derive a residual quantity available for feed.” Negative values that indicate deficits (such as for buckwheat) in 1974-77 are excluded from the calculation. The residual quan- tity of each grain is priced at the corresponding average realized price. The weighted average price for all feed grain varies for year to year according to the shifts in availability of each type of grain. "1 A (ER) 75-68. Approved for Release: 2019/07/19 C05210421
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FOIA release, from the cia-readingroom collection. The PDF is mirrored here; the original link is under it. 399 pages are in the text index: search them above, or from the library's search.