PRELININARY US-SOVIET EXCHANGE OF DATA ON MANPOWER TRAINING AND UTILIZATION FOR COMPARISON OF METHODOLOGIES

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• Collection: General CIA Records
• Document Number (FOIA) /ESDN (CREST): CIA-RDP79-00798A000500130008-1
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• Original Classification: C
• Document Page Count: 12
• Document Creation Date: December 9, 2016
• Document Release Date: April 5, 2000
• Sequence Number: 8
• Publication Date: June 3, 1975
• Content Type: IR

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COUNTRY USSR DCD REPORT NO.
SUBJECT Preliminary US-Soviet Exchange of Data DATE DISTR. 3 JU.1 7 J
on Manpower Training and Utilization
for Comparison of Methodologies NO. PAGES 25X1A
25X1X
DATE OF INFO. March 1975 an~a5pt'ibt'
1. During the meetings of the Joint Group of Experts In the Field of
Science Policy in Moscow in September 1974 members of Subgroup III
(Manpower Training and Utilization) agreed to exchange information
which would provide some insight into methods used in each country
to compile statistics on the training and utilization of manpower.
The US accordingly scot data to the Soviets in November 1974, and
the Scvi^_ts sent some t tcrial to the US in March 1975. (Collector's
Note: As of early May 1975 the Soviet material was still In the
process of being translated and had not yet been seen by Source.]
?. It is anticip-:ed that the Soviet material will contain more figures
on university graduates t-' degree fields than by present employment,
and it is doubtful that the figures will provide much information on
how the rubles are expended. It is further anticipated.4that there
will be problems in interpreting the Soviet data because of differences
in their classifications of manpower. For example, in the US people
are classified in terms of jobs they are actually doing regardless
of what their training might have been. But in the USSR the census
lists people according to the field in which they did their academic
work, regardless of what they are actually doing: if a person graduates
in the field of chemistry he is listed as a chemist for the rest of his
life whether he is employed as a chemist or not.
3. The material provided by the Soviets is not expected to contain
any very meaningful information on the current manpower situation
in the USSR since it was agreed that in this particular exchange
of data each side would work up one sample year which would do onstrate
the methods of compiling such data. The sample year selected by the
USSR could thus be 1961, 1965 or some other year, and it would not
necessarily contain current information. The exchange of data at
this juncture is regarded merely as a procedural step to explain
definitions, sampling techniques, bases of classification and so
forth. It will be useful in the long ran as a oasis for future discussions
and comparisons, but it will not be"of use for purposes outside the study
for which it was intended.
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4. There has already been considerable "slippage" in the schedule originally
established for the work of the joint group. Since this work has not
been given top priority by either country it is possible that more
delays may occur. It seems very doubtful that the work will be
completed by the summer of 1976, which was the original target
date.
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