Two-way summary counting in Excel using COUNTIFS
The COUNTIF function can be used to count the number of cells that meet a certain criterion in Excel. But sometimes, you may need to count cells based on more than one criterion. In this tutorial, we will discuss how to use the COUNTIFS function to create two-way summary count in Excel.
How to perform two-way summary counting using COUNTIFS?
As shown in the table below, supposing you want to count how many males and females there are in the given countries respectively, you can follow the below steps.
Generic Formulas
=COUNTIFS(criteria_range1, criteria1, criteria_range2, criteria2, ... )
Arguments
How to use this formula?
In this case, $D$3:$D$11 is the range1, China is the criteria1 that locates in $G3, $E$3:$E$11 is the range2, and H$2 is the cell reference containing the criteria2.
1. Select a cell to place the first result. In this case, I select cell H3.
2. Enter the below formula into it and press the Enter key to get the result.
=COUNTIFS($D$3:$D$11,$G3,$E$3:$E$11,H$2)
Note: If the criteria argument is a reference to an empty cell, the COUNTIFS function treats the empty cell as a 0 value.
3. Select the first result cell:
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