Statistical Reporting in the States of the Former USSR

1 January 1994

journal article
research article
Published by Taylor & Francis in Post-Soviet Geography

Vol. 35 (1) , 13-37
https://doi.org/10.1080/10605851.1994.10640950

Abstract

A senior, recently retired, CIA analyst examines a range of issues relating to the availability and quality of economic statistics on the successor states of the former USSR. Among the developments covered are the legacy (in personnel and procedures) of the former USSR Goskomstat in the republican statistical committees; the availability of statistical series for the former Soviet republics for 1992, 1991, and the pre-1991 period; inconsistencies and sources of bias in statistical reporting that warrant heightened awareness on the part of geographers and other social scientists; and proposed methodological reforms in statistical reporting. 8 tables, 42 references.

Keywords

This publication has 6 references indexed in Scilit:

The FSU Economies: First Year of Transition
Post-Soviet Geography, 1993
On the Reliability of Information
Russian Social Science Review, 1993
The inevitability of a fall in output in the early stages of transition to the market: Theoretical underpinnings
Soviet Studies, 1991
A note onGlasnost'and the Soviet statistical system
Soviet Studies, 1991
Illusions and Reality of Economic Information
Problems in Economics, 1989
Perestroyka and Soviet Statistics
Soviet Economy, 1988