I have a column like this:
What devices will you be using?
iPad
Kindle & iPad
No Tablet
iPad
iPad & Windows
How do I count the amount of people that said iPad?
This formula does work for exact matches but not if it contains an additional value:
=(COUNTIF(A2:A51,"=iPad")/COUNTA(A2:A51))*1
Any Suggestions?
7 Answers
It will likely have been solved by now, but I ran accross this and figured to give my input
=COUNTIF(a2:a51;"*iPad*")
The important thing is that separating parameters in google docs is using a ; and not a ,
In case someone is still looking for the answer, this worked for me:
=COUNTIF(A2:A51, "*" & B1 & "*")
B1 containing the iPad string.
You should use
=COUNTIF(A2:A51, "*iPad*")/COUNTA(A2:A51)
Additionally, if you wanted to count more than one element, like iPads OR Kindles, you would use
=SUM(COUNTIF(A2:A51, {"*iPad*", "*kindle*"}))/COUNTA(A2:A51)
in the numerator.
Try using wildcards directly in the COUNTIF function :
=(COUNTIF(A2:A51,"=*iPad*")/COUNTA(A2:A51))*1
Wildcards worked for me when the string I was searching for could be entered manually. However, I wanted to store this string in another cell and refer to it. I couldn't figure out how to do this with wildcards so I ended up doing the following:
A1 is the cell containing my search string. B and C are the columns within which I want to count the number of instances of A1, including within strings:
=COUNTIF(ARRAYFORMULA(ISNUMBER(SEARCH(A1, B:C))), TRUE)
I had similar problem however the various count solutions still wouldn't work even with wildcards of "*"& etc..... My problem was caused by &nbsb (hidden spaces) which is hidden in the background when copying eg data from a webpage. This prevents the find from working properly. Use:
=TRIM(SUBSTITUTE(A2, CHAR(160), " "))
or
=TRIM(SUBSTITUTE(A2,CHAR(160),CHAR(32)))
or similar to get rid of them.
Try just =COUNTIF(A2:A51,"iPad")
