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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.
Approved for Release the same in 1980 as they were in 1950. Essentially the same finding holds true when patterns are compared in current prices. Within the goods category, however, there has been a relatively slow decline (by interna- tional standards) in the share of food, beverages, and tobacco and a concomitant rise in the share of soft goods and especially durables." This direction of change is to be expected from Engel’s law concerning the relationship of expenditures on food to total consumption expenditures as incomes rise. Within the services, there has been a small increase in the role of personal services and a moderate drop in the role of communal services. The shares of transportation and communications have risen appreciably, while the share of housing has declined. '1 These matters are explored in more detail in a comparative framework in Schroeder and Edwards, op. Cll. Approved for Release: 2019/07/19 C05210421 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.