Applies a novel methodology of national income calculation that has been applied to numerous Western countries, to the Soviet Union, involving the calculation of national income as the end product of a series of interrelated sector and global accounts of incomes and their disposition

Frontmatter -- Acknowledgments -- Contents -- Tables -- I. Introduction -- II. National Income at Established Prices -- III. National Income in Adjusted Rubles -- IV. Evaluation of Results -- Appendices -- Publications Cited

The paper evaluates the quality of the German national accounting data (GDP and its use-side components) as measured by the magnitude and dispersion of the forecast/revision errors. It is demonstrated that government consumption series are the least reliable, whereas real GDP and real private...