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Former Soviet Union Livestock Inventories, Production and Productivity
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Economic Research Service, United States Department of Agriculture
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This data set provides monthly, quarterly, and annual data concerning 
livestock inventories, production, and productivity for the former Soviet 
Republics, focusing on the period from 1991 to 1995.

Information on both inventories and productivity for all types of farms 
(state and private) is available on an annual basis for the total former 
Soviet Union (FSU) and separately for each of its 15 republics [ file: 
allfsu.wk1 ].

Similar information is available for state farms only on a quarterly 
(inventories) and monthly (production) basis for all republics except the 
three Baltic States and Georgia [files: ***stmin and ***stmpr, where *** 
are the first letters of the republic name]. 

Some additional information is available on three major republics of the 
former Soviet Union:
- For Russia, information on state and private farms is provided 
separately on an annual basis [ file: rusbyear]. 
- Monthly data on inventories is provided for Russia for all farms (state 
and private combined together) [file: rusafmin], and for Russia, Ukraine, 
and Kazakhstan for private holdings and farms [files: ***phmin].

Information on annual animal productivity for all-farm average and for 
state farms alone is available for Russia, Ukraine, Latvia, and Estonia-
[file: prodivt].

Sources for this information include: Various issues of Statisticheskii 
Byulleten by the Mezhgosudarstvennyi Statisticheskii Komitet Sodruzhestva 
Nezavisimiykh Gosudarstv; Sostoyanie Zhivotnovodstva by Goskomstat Rossii; 
Statisticheskii Byulleten: Osnovnye Pokazateli Funktsionirovaniya 
Agropromyshlennogo Kompleksa Rossiiskoi Federatsii by Goskomstat; O 
Sotsialno-Ekonomicheskom Polozhenii Respubliki Kyrgyzstan; Statistical 
Bulletin by the State Committee on Statistics and Analysis of the Republic 
of Kazakstan; Interfax Food and Agriculture Report; Sotsialno-
Ekonomicheskoe Polozhenie Rossii by Goskomstat; Agriculture in Latvia: A 
Collection of Statistical Data; Agriculture in Figures, 1992-1994 by the 
Statistical Office of Estonia; and 1994 Agriculture by the Statistical 
Office of Estonia.


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