text: simplified manner - both price indexes and PPP8 for military research and development. Table 6. Distribution of military and civilian research and development expenditure8 Country Research and development Research and development by by the military sector the private civilian SeCtOr Austria Finland United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland Norway Sweden United States of America 80 20 32 68 55 45 25 75 24 76 I/ ‘_’ B Table 7. Country Personnel Austria Finland United Kingdom Norway Sweden United States Current expenditures Austria Finland United Kingdom Norway Sweden United States Distribution of military, research and development expenditures by category NA 60 64 51.3 62 43 NA 20 26 11.4 29.5 47 Euuipment Austria Finland United Kingdom Norway Sweden United States Construction Austria Finland United Kinqdom Norway Sweden United States A/40/421 English Page 37 NA 17 7 32.8 8 10 NA 3 3 4.5 0.5 0 / . . . A/40/421 English Page 38 CHAPTER IV RESULTS, ANALYSIS AND POSSIBLE FURTHER IMPRCVE~NTS A. Introduction 99. An overall assessment of the data used for the constrUction of the military price indexes and PPPS shows that the information on goods and services within the category of operating costs has been more readily available and detailed than was the case for the other main cost categories. Concerning procurement and construction, participating States submitted information that proved to be uneven and in some cases not sufficient for the Group to construct its own military price indexes. In view of this, the Group decided to make use of substitute indexes from other sources such as OECD or to rely on special indexes which had been submitted directly by the contacts instead of or in addition to data on products and prices. This is also pointed out in table 8 where such figures are given in brackets. An 
analysis: The text appears to be discussing the allocation of resources for research and development in the military sector, as well as the construction of price indexes and purchasing power parities for military goods and services. It seems to be a report on a specific project or initiative, likely related to economic and financial matters.