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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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Table 9
Derivations of 1970 Weights for Components of the Index of Soft Goods
Retail Sales Military
for Consumption H Subsistence b
(Billion Rubles) (Billion Rubles)
T.....1c"*"f"j_, _c,*" ‘::*7IiBI370T'_"”"7:" 1.19»
Consumption
in Kind _t§9_'!t_*1l%r!,¢§W__..__-_.._. _.,_ ,.__1, ____ Wwii 2.603 inf 7* .043
"9§i§!¥.-__.___,_ 169.1,. , _ _ 7
-020
Leathe1'__f0otw'eL *___AԤ._2_107g
K
R"PP§r.fm¢£,. __ , ___._,,-_-_;2_1r*,_,.,. ,_._,-- , ,_
Houselioldvsofapsanii detergents .651 f f f f
Toilet soap and cosmetics 1.140
iii so "0
Scfhool
thread V f
3.6’ V M g V r A W
.010
i10ffiC6Sl5)pl1CS i 834 i if iii”
_____ as _ Ji‘l17_____z_.____,, _ _ .
1.360
1.00.1
1.141
.246
13.954
2.646
3.3
2.4
2.7
.6
33.6
6.3
10.3
4.1
15.2
2.1
.5
1.6
2.7
8.7
2.0
KF?l‘9‘!F?'Y‘{¢_*!E__,_,__ ,.__.__,_iL%7_______-, 3. _
__T_T::T1.1T5W 4-310
1.711
6.333
.865
.214
.651
1.140
3.633
.834an .
Publications 1.640 1.640 3.9
B Total retail sales, less institutional purchases. services and commis-
sion sales. Retail sales are given in Narkhoz 1972, pp. 584-85.
Institutional purchases were distributed on the basis of the shares in
last half 1968-first half 1969 shown in Vest stat, No. 5, 1971, p. 37.
Services were allocated on the basis of data in Narkhoz I972, p. 621.
Cloth used in repair and tailoring of clothing and knitwear was
allocated to fabrics in accordance with their respective shares in
retail trade. Laundry and dry cleaning services were allocated to
clothing. ,
b Military subsistence was distributed among groups on the basis of
information concerning the basic clothing ration and its cost by item.
C Wool.
4 Excluding fur and fur products.
negligible for other footwear. One index—~clothing—
is based on official data on the value of production in
constant rubles; the data are given in the above-noted
sources. Few interpolations had to be made.
Eight indexes are based on deflated retail sales:
fabrics (cotton, wool, silk, linen), haberdashery, school
and office supplies, household soap and detergents,
and toilet soap and cosmetics. Retail sales in current
prices are available for nearly all years in the annual
Narkhozy (e.g., Narkhoz 1972, pp. 584-585) as are
specific indexes of state retail prices (e.g. Narkhoz
1972, p. 603). Price indexes for linen cloth, household
soap and detergents, and toilet soap and cosmetics
were derived from current values and published index-
es of the value of sales in constant prices (e.g..
Narkhoz 1972, p. 555). The index for publications is
based on retail sales in current prices until 1977; no
important price changes are known to have been made
for these goods until then, the prices of which are kept
low as a matter of social policy. .
Durables and Miscellaneous Goods
Scope and Coverage. The index implicitly covers all
goods purchased in state and cooperative retail out-
lets, except those covered by the indexes for “food,
beverages and tobacco" and for “soft goods." The
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