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Lou
Lou

Reputation: 2519

COUNTIF for rows which contain a given value in another column

My table lists every character from all 5 of George R. R. Martin's currently published A Song of Ice and Fire novels. Each row contains a record indicating which book in the series the character is from (numbered 1-5) and a single letter indicating the character's gender (M/F). For example:

   A                  B     C
1  Character          Book  Gender
   ------------------------------
2  Arya Stark        -  1  -  F
3  Eddard Stark      -  1  -  M
4  Davos Seaworth    -  2  -  M
5  Lynesse Hightower -  2  -  F
6  Xaro Xhoan Daxos  -  2  -  M
7  Elinor Tyrell     -  3  -  F

I can use COUNTIF to find out that there are three females and three males in this table, but I want to know, for example, how many males there are in book 2. How could I write a formula that would make this count? Here is a pseudocode of what I'm trying to achieve:

=COUNTIF(C2:C7, Column B = '2' AND Column C = 'M')

This would output 2.

I'm aware that this task is far better suited to databases and a SELECT query, but I'd like to know how to solve this problem within the constraints of a LibreOffice Calc spreadsheet, without using a macro. Excel-based solutions are fine, so long as they also work in Calc. If there's no solution that uses COUNTIF, it doesn't matter, so long as it works.

Upvotes: 2

Views: 8929

Answers (1)

Lou
Lou

Reputation: 2519

I worked it out, thanks to a prompt by assylias. The COUNTIFS formula produces the result I want by counting multiple search criteria. For example, this formula works out how many male characters are in Book 1 (A Game of Thrones).

=COUNTIFS($A$2:$A$2102, "=1", $L$2:$L$2102, "=M")

Upvotes: 5

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