The SRC Data

The SRC Data: Background

The Secretary's Report to Congress provides important summary information about activities that Federal agencies carry out as part of their stewardship responsibilities for archeological resources. The original data, however, are also an important resource: it is the only data about archeological activities and resources in Federal agencies that are collected separately from information about cultural resources.

Since the inception of the SRC questionnaire, there has been an increasing emphasis on Federal accountability to the public. Recent reporting requirements and instruments include, for example, the Government Performance Results Act (1993) (GPRA) and the Office of Management and Budget's (OMB) Program Assessment Rating Tool (PART). These recent reporting requirements have increased the focus on the performance reporting and the reliability of the data provided for the Secretary's Report to Congress.

All of the datasets from 1985 through 2005 are available in the associated Secretary's Report to Congress (1985-1986; 1988-1990; 1991-1993; 1994-1995) or on the Archeology Program website (1987; 1996-1997; 1998-2003; 2004-2005).

In addition to the original data, Excel spreadsheets of all the data in data fields in earlier questionnaires that are comparable to data fields in the FY1998-2003 questionnaire have been prepared. These data were verified by Archeology Program staff between FY2004 and FY2007 to ensure that numbers were accurately transcribed into the Archeology Program database. These data are accessible by year or by agency. A list of agency acronyms is available.

Additional information about responses by each agency, particularly information about responses of “no data” and “not applicable” may be found by consulting the published reports. Narrative responses from agencies, especially for the more recent years of the survey, may be obtained by contacting the Archeology Program at dca@nps.gov.

The links below open the PDF copies of SRC texts to the data pages in most—but not all—browsers. Page numbers correspond to the PDFs' pagination, not that of the original printed reports.

Original Data

1985-1986. In report, page 71 in PDF
1989. Federal Archeology. The Current Program. National Park Service, U.S. Department of the Interior, Washington, DC.
1987. By individual submission
FY1987 data.
1988-1990. In report, page 150 in PDF
1995. Federal Archeology Program, Fiscal Years 1988-1990. National Park Service, U.S. Department of the Interior, Washington, DC.
1991-1993. In report, page 154 in PDF
1997. Federal Archeology Program, Report to Congress, FY1991-1993. Departmental Consulting Archeologist, National Park Service, U.S. Department of the Interior, Washington, DC.
1994-1995. In report, page 66 in PDF
1998. Federal Archeology Program, Secretary of the Interior’s Report to Congress, FY1994-1995. National Park Service, U.S. Department of the Interior, Washington, DC.
1996-1997
SRC Data 1996-1997.
1998-2003
SRC Data 1998-2003.
2004-2005
SRC Data 2004-2005
1985-2005
Comparable SRC Data, 1985-2005, by year.
1985-2005
Comparable SRC Data, 1985-2005, by agency.