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I have two columns that are generated from a Google Forms:

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I would like to create two pie charts, one for City A and one for City B, showing the percentages of male and females from those cities. I am trying to get the count of:

  • all males in City A,
  • males in City B,
  • females in City A, and
  • females in City B

in order to create the pie charts. I can then save these values in a new sheet and generate the pie charts (or bar charts). So I thought I could use COUNTIFS as in Excel but that is not available. I have tried this formula:

=COUNTA(FILTER('Form Responses'! B2:B100, 'Form Responses'! B2:B100="Male", 'Form Responses'! C2:C100, "City B" ))

which didn't seem to get the right answer.

This formula seems to work: 

=INDEX( SUMPRODUCT( ('Form Responses'! B2:B100 = "Male") * ('Form Responses'! C2:C100 ="City B") );1)

and I have been told that:

=COUNTA(FILTER('Form Responses'! B2:B100;('Form Responses'! B2:B100="Male")*('Form Responses'! C2:C100="City B")))

would also work.

Is that the best way to go about getting the information I need for the pie charts, or is there a simpler way of doing this?

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  • Are there only two possible values for City, or can it be anything?
    – Vidar S. Ramdal
    Nov 12 '13 at 14:25
  • @VidarS.Ramdal For this example, lets assume there are only two cities.
    – nicholaschris
    Nov 12 '13 at 14:46
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You could concatenate the strings, so that the row Male | City A is represented as MaleCity A, and count the occurrences of those strings.

Given that column B contains either Male or Female, and column C contains either City A or City B, you could count males/females in each city:

  • Number of males in City A: =COUNTIF(ARRAYFORMULA(CONCAT(B2:B;C2:C)); "MaleCity A")
  • Number of females in City A: =COUNTIF(ARRAYFORMULA(CONCAT(B2:B;C2:C)); "FemaleCity A")
  • Number of males in City B: =COUNTIF(ARRAYFORMULA(CONCAT(B2:B;C2:C)); "MaleCity B")
  • Number of females in City B =COUNTIF(ARRAYFORMULA(CONCAT(B2:B;C2:C)); "FemaleCity B")

The percentage of males/females in each city can then easily be calculated.

See the example spreadsheet I set up.

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  • This looks like a good solution. It works. As I see it, the same number of steps are required.
    – nicholaschris
    Nov 14 '13 at 11:32
  • Good to hear! If you're happy with the answer, you could click Accept. Or wait a few days to see if other possibilities show up.
    – Vidar S. Ramdal
    Nov 14 '13 at 11:52
  • I will wait a few days and then accept. Thanks @Vidar!
    – nicholaschris
    Nov 14 '13 at 13:32
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Concerning:

So I thought I could use COUNTIFS as in Excel but that is not available.

But it is available. A pivot table might be more convenient (on the right) but a similar table can be constructed with:

=countifs($A:$A,E$1,$B:$B,$D2)

as shown in the middle (yellow labels):

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