In the eighties greater emphasis has been placed on intensification of growth in the Soviet Union. Soviet planners are now confronted with the task of improving their knowledge of existing capacity and their means of control over both capacity utilization and expansion. Imperfect knowledge has become a major hindrance to a better allocation of resources. Information is limited and biased. The ministries tend to overestimate capacity utilization by excluding from the estimates of their equipment machines in storage or recently installed. The CSA's statistics are biased by inadequate statistical methods and by the reliance on physical indicators. They tend to overestimate actual capacity and consequently to underestimate capacity utilization.