The dollar figure is a lower bound. Tracked passive dollars = the sum of the position's disclosed market value across every tracked book whose period end falls in that calendar quarter. N-PORT reports position value in USD. A LOWER BOUND on passive ownership — 25 tracked funds, not the whole passive complex — and the contributing books carry different period ends inside the quarter, so it is a sum of snapshots, not a single-date figure.
The percentage is split-adjusted. % of market cap = those dollars ÷ (the stored close at the quarter end × the SEC cover-page share count vintage-matched to that quarter and rebased into the close's own split basis). Stored closes are split-adjusted to today while a cover count is as-filed for its vintage, so rebasing both onto one basis is what keeps the series comparable across a split — the same convention the OWN tab's %-of-shares-out denominator uses, from the same module.
Recent quarters fill in late. Each quarter names how many of the tracked funds actually FILED a book in it. Fund calendars differ (SSGA files Mar/Jun/Sep/Dec, iShares Jan/Apr/Jul/Oct), so the newest quarter is always partial until the late filers land — a partial quarter's dollars are not comparable to a complete one's and are flagged rather than plotted as a collapse.
Pre-2019 data is kept separate. The pre-2019 leg is deliberately NOT aggregated into the footprint. Its books are a reconstruction whose per-book coverage runs 0.65–1.00, only some funds are present in any quarter, and identity-withheld rows mean absence is not evidence of non-membership — so a dollar total over it is not comparable to the N-PORT panel's. It is reported as what it is: observations, with their count, span and disclosed dollars. For CLST the reconstruction's confirmed-identity observations land as the pre-2019 panels are matched.