CRITICIZES HUNGARIAN INDUSTRIAL STATISTICS

• Document Type: CREST
• Collection: General CIA Records
• Document Number (FOIA) /ESDN (CREST): CIA-RDP80-00809A000600390284-4
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• Original Classification: C
• Document Page Count: 2
• Document Creation Date: December 22, 2016
• Document Release Date: October 19, 2011
• Sequence Number: 284
• Publication Date: May 11, 1951
• Content Type: REPORT

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CLASSIFICATION CONFIDENTIAL GQ f'DEI" I
Economic - Production, industry, statistics
Monthly periodical
Budapest
Oct 1950
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CRITICIZES HUNGARIAN INDUSTRIAL STATTT TICS
The Central Statistical Office has compared the production figures for the
first half of 1950 with statistical data for the same period. This work included
several hundred enterprises and there was hardly one case in which the most im-
portant index derived from the two reports, the cost of production exclusive of
raw materials, coincided.
Two reasons are given for these deviations: (1) the enterprises did not
observe existing decrees regarding accounting and statistical procedures, and
(2) the existing decrees regarding accounting and statistical methods are contra-
dictory.
The following examples illustrate the first case, taken from heavy industry:
Semifinished products worth 1,205,000 forints at the beginning of the first
quarter of 1950 were omitted, and the amount is shown as a bookkkeeiing surplus.
Cash sales.were not reported to the Statistical Office, because of an over-
sight.
Electric power was not always included in the list of materials used. The
cost of power, gas, and water was disregarded. Further discrepancies were caused
by the enterprise using dictated production-costs.
In the light industry, costs of raw materials were shown only to a small ex-
tent or not at all. Costs of power, steam, water, and work clothes were omitted.
Discrepancies were caused by the fact that the cost of materials was calcu-
lated erroneously, and the Statistical Office was not informed of this fact.
No records of raw materials were kept. In many cases the reported figures
were based on estimates.
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The data on wages did nqt correspond with the production results, since, for
instance, vacations paid during the last week of the month are to be reportsd dur-
ing the following month in the statistical questionnaires.
Discrepancies are caused by the fact that materials which are not listed in
the statistical questionnaire are simply omitted. These examples show poor per-
formance on the part of executives, headbookkeepers? statisticians, and the super-
visory agencies.
The low quality and contradictions of the above production and statistical
reports are a danger to planned economy.
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