Manuals/calci/DCOUNTA

DCOUNTA(db, fld, cri)

• Where 'db' is the range of cells that makes up the list or database

• 'fld' shows which column is used in the function and

• 'cri' is the range of cells that contains the specified criteria.

• DCOUNTA() counts the non-blank cells in the column of a list or database that match the specified criteria.

Description

DCOUNTA(db, fld, cri)

It counts the nonblank cells in a column of a list or database that match conditions that we specify.

• The argument 'fld' is optional. If not mentioned, the function counts all the numbers from database that match the criteria.

• Criteria can be any range on the 'Calci' with minimum of one column and at least one row indicating the condition.

• The Criteria columns should not overlap the list of data.

• DCOUNT() can be used to count the number of cells from a list of database that are numbers and match a specified criteria.

Examples

Consider the following table with Employee names, Age and Salary columns. Row1 to Row3 has the criteria fields. Row4 to Row10 display the actual data.

Name	Age	Salary	Age
	<40	>5000	>32
	>30
Name	Age	Salary
John	34	5500
Bill	35	6500
Clark	29	7000
Bob	45
Susan	37	4000
Jill	45	8000

=DCOUNTA(A4:C10,"Salary",A1:C2) : Counts the number of non-blank cells in the 'Salary' column, in the range A4 to C10, for the employees whose Age<40 and Salary>5000. Displays 3 as a result.

=DCOUNTA(A4:C10,"Salary",D1:D2) : Counts the number of non-blank cells in the 'Salary' column, in the range A4 to C10, for the employees whose Age>32.Displays 4 as a result.

There are 5 Salary fields with Employee Age>32, but Salary field for Employee Bob is blank. Hence result displayed is '4'.

See Also

• DCOUNT

References

• List of Aggregate Functions
• DCOUNTA