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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 B-1
1972 Construction lnput Weights
Input-Output Sector Purchases by Con-
struction (thousand
rubles, producers‘
prices)
Share of
Purchases
(percent)
Ferrous metals 3,103,673 8.6
Input-Output Sector Purchases by Con- Share of
struction (thousand Purchases
rubles, producers‘ (percent)
prices)
Basic chemical products Q 129,655 ..
°-_4
Nonferrous metals 205,220 0.6 Aniline dye products 31,056 _., ___ ELL __.
Refractory materials 165,739 0.5
E811 l 105,696 0.3
Oil extraction 13,358 8
Qil Efining 566,432 1.6
Gas 16,550 a
Peat 6,897 a
Oil shales 7,591 a
Electric power 504,205 1.4
Energy and power m&e b 35,779 0.1
iilectrotechnical m&e 494,980 1.4
Machine tools 9,753 a
Forge-pressing m&e 2,458 a
Precision instruments 52,269 0.1
Mining and metallurgical
m&e _
240,970 0.7
Pumps and chemical
equipment
35,591 0.1
Logging and paper m&e 11,817 a
Hoisting and transport
equipment
67,871 0.2
Synthetic resins and 41,847
plastics
0.1
Synthetic fibers 2,980 a
Organic-synthetic 25,594
products M
TM (Ii
Paint and lacquer M 610,260 1.7
Rubber products _ 313,506
Other chemical products 132_,410
_.__i
0.9 _ _
0.4
Logging i 437,967 1.2
T“
Sawmill and lumber 3,206,976
products W
Furniture W" 26,348
2.5‘
0
0.1
Paper and pulp W 79,506 0.2
Wood chemistry ____ 4,031 a
Construction materials _1_2_,621,2l 5 _ ____ _. 34_-?__.__ ,_
Glass __ 379,175 1.0
Textiles 187,357 0.5
Sewn goods _: 375,049 1.-_9__,___,
Other light industry _ 69,220 0.2
Meat products _ 1 1,018 a
Construction m&e 198,056 0.5 Dairy products 7,025 1!
Transport m&e 7,942 a Flour and bread W 947 a
Automobiles 329,658 0.9 Other foods ___ 86,257 0.2
WT
A§§i3u|ru§§iF;§r= 148,592 0.4 Crops ___ 34,820
“T o. i
Radioelectronics and other
machine building
412,753 1.1
Sanitary engineering
products
1 ,131,383
—
3.1
Other metalwares 540,714 1.5
Metal structures 1,713,501 4.7
ilepair of m&e 914,314 2.5
Animal husbandry 11,718 8
Transportation and 5,841,370
communications W
_i
-_._
Trade and distribution 465,452 _‘"W*i1l3
_
Total 36,176,521 100.0
=* = Less than 0.05 percent.
1’ m&e = machinery and equipment.
Source: Dimitri M. Gallik, Barry L. Kostinskiy, and Vladimir G.
Treml, Input-Output Structure of the Soviet Economy: 1972, US
Department of Commerce, Bureau of the Census, Washington,
D.C., forthcoming.
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