Supernova discovery statistics for 2016

These are supernova stastics for the year 2016. If there are other statistics you are interested in, please let me know.
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For the year 2016, 2097 supernovae and 12 extragalactic novae were reported.
172 of these supernovae were named by CBAT,
1498 were given possible supernova designations,
and 427 were not reported to CBAT.
36 supernovae were found in NGC/IC galaxies, 147 were found in named galaxies
46 objects were discovered by amateurs
0 were brighter than 13th Magnitude
19 were brighter than 16th Magnitude
198 were brighter than 18th Magnitude
145 Type I supernovae were found
  133 Type Ia
  8 Type Ib
  6 Type Ic
  2 Type I-pec
54 Type II supernovae were found
  5 Type IIn
  19 Type IIP
  7 Type IIb
  0 Type IIL
  0 Type II-pec
1 LBV (supernova impostors) were found
1891 were untyped
Of the 12 novae that were reported  12 were reported to CBAT and 0 were not
  0 were given official names by CBAT
  9 were found in M31
  3 were found in M81
  0 were found in M33
  7 were untyped


1602 objects were discovered by PS1 (prof)
 159 objects were discovered by Gaia Photometric Science Alerts programme (prof)
 110 objects were discovered by CRTS (prof)
  44 objects were discovered by All Sky Automated Survey for SuperNovae (ASAS-SN) (prof)
  44 objects were discovered by OGLE-IV wide field survey (prof)
  35 objects were discovered by La Silla-QUEST (prof)
  23 objects were discovered by PTF (prof)
  21 objects were discovered by ATLAS (prof)
  11 objects were discovered by MASTER (prof)
  10 objects were discovered by PMO-Tsinghua Supernova Survey (PTSS)
   8 objects were discovered by Xing Gao et al. (prof)
   7 objects were discovered by Kamil Hornoch et al.
   6 objects were discovered by Stu Parker
   4 objects were discovered by Dark Energy Survey (prof)
   3 objects were discovered by Emmanuel Conseil
   3 objects were discovered by Koichi Itagaki
   2 objects were discovered by LOSS (prof)
   2 objects were discovered by Ron Arbour
   2 objects were discovered by Tim Puckett, Jack Newton, et al.
   2 objects were discovered by XAO-THU Supernova Survey (XTSS)
   1 objects were discovered by CHASE (prof)
   1 objects were discovered by E. Conseil
   1 objects were discovered by Greg Bock
   1 objects were discovered by Grzegorz Duszanowicz and Michal Zolnowski
   1 objects were discovered by Italian Supernovae Search Project
   1 objects were discovered by Jaroslaw Grzegorzek
   1 objects were discovered by M. Aoki
   1 objects were discovered by Masaki Tsuboi
   1 objects were discovered by Peter Marples and Greg Bock
   1 objects were discovered by SPitzer InfraRed Intensive Transients Survey (prof)
   1 objects were discovered by unknown

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