Hi

Use Sumif instead
=SUMIF(Ethnicity_column,Ethnicity,Count_column)

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Regards
Roger Govier

"ldenning" wrote in message
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I need a formula that will calculate the number of contacts that I make
within a particular ethinicity. I have two columns, with the household
ethnicity in one column and then the number of contacts in that household
in
the second. What formula can I use count the total number of contacts
within
an ethnicity? I first tried the CountIf function, but realized that I was
only receiving a count of the instances of a particular ethnicity and not
the
actual number of contacts.