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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.

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Table B-5
Selected Purchases by Agriculture of Material
Inputs From Nonagricultural Sectors in 1972
Material- Input
Category
Input-Output Sector Purchases by Agriculture
(thousand rubles,
purchasers’ prices)
Share of Purchases
(percent)
Mineral fertilizer 2,102,579 16.3
W
Mineral chemistry products 59,649
Basic chemistry products 1,722,868
Organic synthetic products 12,570
Other chemicals 307,492
Electric power Electric power 317,298 2.5
V
Fuel and lubricants Oil refining 2,240,049 173
8 1"
Machinery repair 3,993,145
i 30.9 Mni
Metallurgy 97,585
Machine building and metalworking 3,895,560
Fish meal Fish products 397,966
g 3.1
' W
Bone meal Meat products 191,769 1.5“
W W
Milling byproducts Flour and cereals 2,758,112 21.3 _
1'
‘W
Oilseed meal 168,282 1.3
Vegetable products 57,336
Other foods 1 10,946
Skim milk Dairy products 608,679
_
4.7
Sugar beets Sugar 151,593
W 1.2
M
Total 12,929,472 100.0
Source: See table B-1 for a reference to the 1972 input-output data.
Agriculture
Scope and Coverage
The index of net agricultural production described by
Margaret Hughes and Barbara Severin (JEC, Agri-
culture) represents the gross value of agricultural
output less the value of that output used within
agriculture. In order to compute a value-added index
for agriculture, it is necessary to subtract also the I
value of the materials and services purchased by
agriculture on current account from nonagricultural
sectors. This subtraction is described here.
The index of purchases from nonagricultural sectors is
by design a material-input index similar to the con-
struction index described above. We have been able to
construct indexes of 10 types of materials purchased
by agriculture. These indexes are combined using
weights derived from the 1972 Soviet input-output
table.
Weights
Table B-5 shows the derivation of the weights used to
combine the 10 indexes of material inputs purchased
from nonagricultural sectors. The 1972 Soviet input-
output table shows agricu1ture’s purchases from all
sectors. Those purchases which relate to each of the
10 material-input indexes were summed and convert-
ed to percentage weights. The purchases selected in
this manner represent 71 percent of agriculture’s
purchases from nonagricultural sectors in 1972. The
most important types of inputs are fuel, machinery
repair, and milling byproducts.
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