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How do you cound the number of instances of, for instance, males or females
in a particular column

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Have a look at the COUNTIF function. E.g.,

=COUNTIF(A1:A100,"Male")


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How do you cound the number of instances of, for instance,
males or females
in a particular column

Thanks again guys



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