Supernova discovery statistics for 2011

These are supernova stastics for the year 2011. If there are other statistics you are interested in, please let me know.
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For the year 2011, 1129 supernovae and 42 extragalactic novae were reported.
301 of these supernovae were named by CBAT,
95 were given possible supernova designations,
and 733 were not reported to CBAT.
102 supernovae were found in NGC/IC galaxies, 984 were found in named galaxies
171 objects were discovered by amateurs
7 were brighter than 13th Magnitude
72 were brighter than 16th Magnitude
295 were brighter than 18th Magnitude
439 Type I supernovae were found
  395 Type Ia
    0 Type Ia-02cx
    1 Type Ia-91bg
    0 Type Ia-91T
    5 Type Ia-pec
  22 Type Ib
    0 Type Ibn
    0 Type Ib-pec
  20 Type Ic
    0 Type Icn
    1 Type Ic-pec
  1 Type SLSN-I
160 Type II supernovae were found
  24 Type IIn
  42 Type IIP
  12 Type IIb
  1 Type IIL
  0 Type SLSN-II
  3 Type II-pec
10 LBV (supernova impostors) were found
18 were not supernovae or Extragalactic novae.
504 were untyped
Of the 42 novae that were reported  39 were reported to CBAT and 3 were not
  1 were given official names by CBAT
  33 were found in M31
  5 were found in M81
  0 were found in M33
  14 were untyped


 393 objects were discovered by CRTS (prof) (2011jt)
 326 objects were discovered by PTF (prof) (PTF12xv)
 152 objects were discovered by PS1 (prof) (PS1-11xm)
  39 objects were discovered by LOSS (prof) (2011in)
  30 objects were discovered by MASTER (prof) (MASTER OT021912.06+465550.2)
  25 objects were discovered by CHASE (prof) (2011jl)
  21 objects were discovered by Italian Supernovae Search Project (2011jq)
  20 objects were discovered by Tim Puckett, Jack Newton, et al. (2011jr)
  16 objects were discovered by Berto Monard (2011ka)
  12 objects were discovered by HST (prof) (HST 0717201+374954)
  12 objects were discovered by Kamil Hornoch et al. (Nova M81 2011-12a?)
  12 objects were discovered by Stu Parker (2011jo)
  10 objects were discovered by Tom Boles (PSN J18270086+7250563)
   9 objects were discovered by XOSS (2011hj)
   8 objects were discovered by Koichi Itagaki (2011iy)
   8 objects were discovered by Koichi Nishiyama and Fujio Kabashima (Nova M31 2011-12b?)
   7 objects were discovered by La Silla-QUEST (prof) (LSQ11gw)
   6 objects were discovered by LSSSS (2011bm)
   6 objects were discovered by ROTSE (prof) (2011fr)
   5 objects were discovered by Evgeni Ovcharov et al. (Nova M31 2011-12c?)
   5 objects were discovered by Stanislav Korotkiy et al. (Nova M31 2011-11c?)
   5 objects were discovered by unknown (Nova M31 2011-11b?)
   4 objects were discovered by Giancarlo Cortini (2011jf)
   4 objects were discovered by T. Kryachko et al. (2011hx)
   3 objects were discovered by Martin Henze et al. (prof) (Nova M31 2011-06c?)
   3 objects were discovered by SWIFT (prof) (2011kl)
   2 objects were discovered by Denis Denisenko (2011ip)
   2 objects were discovered by Greg Bock (2011jp)
   2 objects were discovered by K. Sárneczky et al. (PSN J01085731+1442388)
   2 objects were discovered by Masaki Tsuboi (2011em)
   2 objects were discovered by Ron Arbour (2011fy)
   1 objects were discovered by Alex Langoussis (2011bd)
   1 objects were discovered by B. Dintinjana and H. Mikuz (2011hw)
   1 objects were discovered by Blaz Mikuz (2011fc)
   1 objects were discovered by Doug Rich (PSN J12565170+2629167)
   1 objects were discovered by E. Kankare, S. Ryder, and S. Mattila (2011hi)
   1 objects were discovered by ESO (prof) (2011ee)
   1 objects were discovered by J. Vales (2011ie)
   1 objects were discovered by KNTraP (prof) (2011fs)
   1 objects were discovered by Leonid Elenin (2011ij)
   1 objects were discovered by Marco Migliardi (2011is)
   1 objects were discovered by Maurice Gavin (2011az)
   1 objects were discovered by Perth Observatory (prof) (2011ed)
   1 objects were discovered by SDSS (prof) (SDSS J130623.89-014033.6)
   1 objects were discovered by Shigeru Furuyama (2011ir)
   1 objects were discovered by Tom Reiland (2011dh)
   1 objects were discovered by VVV survey (prof) (VVV-WIT-05)
   1 objects were discovered by Yoji Hirose (2011jh)
   1 objects were discovered by Yu-Chi Cheng (PSN J16364480+0140470)
   1 objects were discovered by Z. Kuli, K. Sá (2011ab)

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