FDLP Resource Guides: LSCM Library Technical Services Information Portal: LTS Data

Overview

The Catalog of U.S. Government Publications (CGP) contains a great amount of information about the operations of the U.S. Federal Government as embodied by the resources that Library Technical Services (LTS) have cataloged. Library Services and Content Management (LSCM) and LTS plan to mine the CGP for data to tell stories about Federal Government information and the Federal Depository Library Program (FDLP) and to represent LSCM’s work. In this section, we present various types of CGP statistics and offer several features for viewing and downloading the data.

We will periodically refresh the data on this page and replace the current data and visualizations with new elements. We welcome feedback and recommendations and will take them under advisement. Please submit your questions and suggestions via askGPO in the “Cataloging/Metadata (Policy and Records)” category.

Congress.gov Policy Areas Terms in GPO Records, 10/22-7/23 (8/28/2023)

General Data	No. of Records	% of Total
Total records	1,672	NA
Total terms used	1,709	NA
Records with one term	1,635	97.8%
Records with two terms	37	2.2%
Online version records	859	51.4%
Print version records	813	48.6%

Specific Publication Types	No. of Records	% of Total
House documents	21	1.3%
House hearings	572	34.2%
House prints	21	1.3%
House reports	319	19.1%
Private laws	3	0.2%
Public laws	249	14.9%
Senate documents	2	0.1%
Senate executive reports	0	0.0%
Senate hearings	276	16.5%
Senate prints	0	0.0%
Senate reports	227	13.6%
Treaty documents	0	0.0%

General Publication Types	No. of Records	% of Total
Documents	23	1.4%
Hearings	848	50.7%
Laws	252	15.1%
Prints	21	1.3%
Reports	546	32.7%

Terms	First Term	Second Term	Total	% of Total
Agriculture and Food	29	0	29	1.7%
Animals	14	2	16	0.9%
Armed Forces and National Security	89	0	89	5.2%
Arts, Culture, Religion	2	0	2	0.1%
Civil Rights and Liberties, Minority Issues	14	0	14	0.8%
Commerce	27	0	27	1.6%
Congress	62	0	62	3.6%
Crime and Law Enforcement	112	0	112	6.6%
Economics and Public Finance	98	2	100	5.9%
Education	18	4	22	1.3%
Emergency Management	74	0	74	4.3%
Energy	24	0	24	1.4%
Environmental Protection	74	0	74	4.3%
Families	4	0	4	0.2%
Finance and Financial Sector	35	0	35	2.0%
Foreign Trade and International Finance	10	0	10	0.6%
Government Operations and Politics	324	2	326	19.1%
Health	123	12	135	7.9%
Housing and Community Development	11	0	11	0.6%
Immigration	7	0	7	0.4%
International Affairs	86	0	86	5.0%
Labor and Employment	33	8	41	2.4%
Law	62	1	63	3.7%

Native Americans	54	0	54	3.2%
Public Lands and Natural Resources	152	0	152	8.9%
Science, Technology, Communications	47	0	47	2.8%
Social Sciences and History	0	2	2	0.1%
Social Welfare	20	2	22	1.3%
Sports and Recreation	0	0	0	0.0%
Taxation	5	2	7	0.4%
Transportation and Public Works	52	0	52	3.0%
Water Resources Development	10	0	10	0.6%

Document Discovery Records Data (8/14/2023)

Cataloging Year	Records	All Records
2019 (May-December)	573	13,973
2020	1,181	19,746
2021	692	16,043
2022	524	15,907
2023 (January-June)	185	6,949
Totals	3,155	72,618
Publication Years	Records	% of Total
1930s	1	0.03%
1940s	2	0.06%
1950s	1	0.03%
1960s	5	0.2%
1970s	337	10.7%
1980s	394	12.5%
1990s	124	3.9%
2000s	105	3.3%
2010-2015	45	1.4%
2016	28	0.9%
2017	34	1.1%
2018	65	2.1%
2019	639	20.3%
2020	559	17.7%
2021	597	18.9%
2022	219	6.9%
2023	4	0.1%
Selected Agencies	Records	% of Total
Department of Agriculture	8	0.3%
Department of Defense	43	1.4%
Department of Energy, National Renewable Energy Laboratory	1,192	37.8%
Department of Health and Human Services	20	0.6%
Department of the Interior, U.S. Geological Survey	739	23.4%
Environmental Protection Agency	1,122	35.6%
Nuclear Regulatory Commission	21	0.7%

U.S. Congressional Serial Set Project Records Data (7/20/2023)

General Data	No. of Records	% of Total
Total	30,209	NA
Monographs	30,007	99.3%
Serials	202	0.7%
Congressional Serials	63	31.2%
Departmental Serials	139	68.8%

Publication Types	No. of Records	% of Total
Court of Claims Reports	202	0.7%
House Documents	4,293	14.2%
House Executive Documents	1,194	4.0%
House Miscellaneous Documents	773	2.6%
House Reports	11,532	38.2%
House Resolutions	27	0.1%
Indexes	9	0.03%
Senate Documents	3,700	12.2%
Senate Executive Documents	655	2.2%
Senate Miscellaneous Documents	663	2.2%
Senate Reports	7,159	23.7%

Publication Dates	No. of Records	% of Total
19th Century	16,582	54.9%
20th Century	13,624	45.1%
1810s	403	1.3%
1820s	1,503	5.0%
1830s	3,470	11.5%
1840s	3,855	12.8%
1850s	4,316	14.3%
1860s	2,037	6.7%
1870s	177	0.6%
1880s	159	0.5%
1890s	609	2.0%
1900s	753	2.5%
1910s	594	2.0%
1920s	5,832	19.3%
1930s	584	1.9%
1940s	894	3.0%
1950s	3,900	12.9%
1960s	297	1.0%
1970s	492	1.6%
1980s	237	0.8%

Congress Numbers	No. of Records	% of Total
15-19 (1817-1827)	1,563	5.2%
20-29 (1827-1847)	6,571	21.8%
30-39 (1847-1867)	7,185	23.8%
40-48 (1867-1885)	365	1.2%
51-59 (1889-1907)	1,338	4.4%
60-69 (1907-1927)	6,401	21.2%
70-79 (1927-1946)	1,159	3.8%
80-89 (1947-1966)	4,491	14.9%
90-98 (1967-1984)	732	2.4%

Presidential Administrations	Dates	Congresses	No. of Records	% of Total
James Monroe	1817-1825	15-18	289	1.0%
John Quincy Adams	1825-1829	19-20	591	2.0%
Andrew Jackson	1829-1837	21-24	2,088	6.9%
Martin Van Buren	1837-1841	25-26	2,298	7.6%
William Henry Harrison/John Tyler	1841	27	873	2.9%
John Tyler	1842-1845	27-28	526	1.7%
James K. Polk	1845-1849	29-30	62	0.2%
Zachary Taylor/Millard Fillmore	1849-1850	31	735	2.4%
Millard Fillmore	1851-1853	31-32	387	1.3%
Franklin Pierce	1853-1857	33-34	1,722	5.7%
James Buchanan	1857-1861	35-36	2,695	8.9%
Abraham Lincoln	1861-1865	37-38	564	1.9%
Abraham Lincoln/Andrew Johnson	1865	39	65	0.2%
Andrew Johnson	1866-1869	39-40	56	0.2%
Ulysses S. Grant	1869-1877	41-44	164	0.5%
Rutherford B. Hayes	1877-1881	46	145	0.5%

Chester A. Arthur	1881-1885	48	6	0.02%
Benjamin Harrison	1889-1893	51-52	4	0.0%
Grover Cleveland	1893-1897	53-54	348	1.2%
William McKinley	1897-1901	55-56	264	0.9%
William McKinley/Theodore Roosevelt	1901	57	596	2.0%
Theodore Roosevelt	1902-1909	57-60	117	0.4%
William Howard Taft	1909-1913	61-62	389	1.3%
Woodrow Wilson	1913-1921	65-66	308	1.0%
Warren G. Harding	1921-1922	67	3	0.0%
Warren G. Harding/Calvin Coolidge	1923	68	1,008	3.3%
Calvin Coolidge	1924-1929	68-70	694	2.3%
Herbert Hoover	1929-1933	71-72	63	0.2%
Franklin D. Roosevelt	1933-1945	74-78	1,094	3.6%
Franklin D. Roosevelt/Harry S. Truman	1945	79	2	0.01%
Harry S. Truman	1946-1953	80-82	3,559	11.8%
Dwight D. Eisenhower	1953-1961	83-86	788	2.6%
John F. Kennedy	1961-1963	87-88	17	0.1%
John F. Kennedy/Lyndon B. Johnson	1963	88	3	0.01%
Lyndon B. Johnson	1964-1969	88-90	125	0.4%
Richard M. Nixon	1969-1974	91-93	318	1.1%
Richard M. Nixon/Gerald R. Ford	1974	93	56	0.2%
Gerald R. Ford	1974-1977	93-94	101	0.3%
Jimmy Carter	1977-1981	95-96	130	0.4%
Ronald Reagan	1981-1989	98	126	0.4%

CGP Data Dashboard (12/22/2022)

In March 2022, Library Services & Content Management’s Federal Depository Support Systems (FDSS) and Library Technical Services (LTS) collaborated on the creation and launch of the CGP Data Dashboard to visualize various aspects of the bibliographic records for Federal Government information products in the CGP. In December 2022, LTS refreshed the dashboard with data from the approximately 8,800 records cataloged by LTS staff members from January through June 2022. LTS will periodically add new data points and update the current ones.