text: done so with regard to al1 cost categories except for item 2.2, "Construction". Only one of the 14 respondents did no-t use the most detailed leve1 at all. 03. Al1 figures were reported in terms of the respective country's national currency; For aggregation and comparison purposes4 these figures were converted to United States dollars and special drawing rights (SDR) by means of the average exchange rates published by the International Monetary Fund for the relevant time periods. The question of conversion is discussed in section III A. 84. The total value of the military expenditures reported by the 14 participating countries amounts to $US 176 billion (for reporting years that varied somewhat., as noted in section II A). This amount can be taken to represent roughly as' much as 35 to 40 per cent of world military expenditures in 1978. b/ The expenditures reported are shown in table 1, Table 1. Total miiitay expenditures reported by participating countries (in millions of US dollars and SDR of the reporting period) country Reporting period Millions of US dollars Millions of SDR Australia Austria Belgiutn Canada France Germany, Federal Republic of Indonesia rtaly ìdexico Netherlands aew Zealand Norway Sweden United States 1/7/1g78-3o/6/1g79 3 064 1/1/1979-31/12/197p 882 1/1/1gi%-31/12/?378 2 664 V+/wi'8-31/3/wi'9 3 733 l/l/lgOo-31/12/1g8o 21 6’i’g 1/1/1g78-31/12/w’8 19 417 15 510 1/4/1978-31/3/1979 1 405 1 107 l/l/lg8o-31/12/1g8o 6 966 5 260 l/l/lg8o-W12/1g8o 515 389 1/1/wi’8-31/W1978 4 508 3 601 W/w’8-WWxm 313 247 1/1/1978-31/12/1978 1 361 1 087 N’/1978-3o/G/wi’9 3 242 2 530 1/WWi’7-W9/1978 ro6 354 86 891 2 391 683 2 128 2 941 16 368 d/ According to the Stockholm International Peace Research Institute (SIPRI) Yearbõok of World Armaments snd Diaarmament of 1980 y world military expenditures !%monnted to $US 440 billion in 1978. Other sources show somewhat higher estimates for that year. -24- 
analysis: The text appears to be a report on military expenditures by different countries, discussing the methodology used to gather and convert the data, and presenting the results in a table. The focus is on the financial aspect of military spending, which suggests a connection to economic development and international relations.