3  Genre 008/33

MARC: 008

3.1 Description

MARC21 field 008 contains fixed-length data elements that encode various bibliographic details. In this context, we focus specifically on books—that is, records where the Type of Record is language material. From this field, we extract and interpret the genre information as encoded in position 33 of the 008 field.

This analysis is based on 1043567 book records in the Fennica database.

3.2 Complete Dataset Overview

Unique genre 008: 13.

There are 52 missing values in the dataset, accounting for (0%) of the total. Also, there 402097 “Not coded” genres in the field 008/33, accounting for (38.53%) of the total.

Unrecognized genre 088 provides details of Genre 008 that were discarded, in total: 0.

3.2.1 Top 20 Genre Count in Fennica

Genre for Books	Entries (n)	Fraction (%)
Tietokirjallisuus	413280	39.6
Romaanit	132454	12.7
Kaunokirjallisuus	33805	3.2
Runot	29636	2.8
Novellit, kertomukset	13301	1.3
Draama	8255	0.8
Yhdistelmä	6252	0.6
Puheet, esitelmät	2156	0.2
Esseet	1271	0.1
Kirjeet	767	0.1
Huumori, satiiri	223	0
Tuntematon	18	0

3.2.2 Fiction VS Non-Fiction over Time (log10)

3.3 Subset Analysis: 1809-1917

Unique genre 008: 12.

There are 1 missing values in the dataset, accounting for (0%) of the total. Also, there 30951 “Not coded” genres in the field 008/33, accounting for (53.01%) of the total.

3.3.1 Top 15 Genre Count in Fennica (1809-1917)

Genre for Books (1809-1917)	Entries (n)	Fraction (%)
Tietokirjallisuus	14653	1.4
Romaanit	5336	0.5
Runot	3002	0.3
Novellit, kertomukset	1908	0.2
Draama	1715	0.2
Yhdistelmä	276	0
Kaunokirjallisuus	263	0
Puheet, esitelmät	229	0
Esseet	19	0
Kirjeet	18	0
Huumori, satiiri	12	0

3.3.2 Certain Genres over Time