excel pivot table - count appearance of certan value in column

Question

let's say i have folowing data for my excel pivot table:

country_id user_id answer ---------- ------- ------ 1 1 Y 1 2 Y 2 3 N 2 4 Y 3 5 N

i would like to count how many "Y" i have per country. If i put "answer" in Values as "Count of answer" i get 1 for each row. How can i count only "Y" answers?

so the result will be:

country_id answerY ----------- ------- 1 2 2 1 3 0

br Y

Answer 1

I'm not sure you can do that in a pivot table, but if you would like to do it outside of a pivot table you could make a couple of columns with these formulas:

Column D:
=IF(C2="Y",1,0)*A2

Column E:
=COUNTIF(D$2:D$6,B2)

This assumes that all user IDs are unique and sequential, and D$6 needs to be replaced with whatever is the last value in the column. Column E will have the values you described as answerY.

Answer 2

I have a solution similar to @pkg. Add one more column in your data and call it "answerY" with the formula:

=IF(C4="Y",1,0)

or, if your data is in a table:

=IF([@answer]="Y",1,0)

Now, set up your pivot table as follows:

Row lables:  country
Values: answerY (sum)

Ordinarily I'd say to add a calculated field in a pivot table, but calculated fields work off of the aggregate values, and I can't think of a way to do this with a straight pivot table.

If you have the ability to use PowerPivot, you could create a custom column or a Dax expression that would handle this.