Documentation/Calc Functions/COUNTIFS

Function name:
COUNTIFS

Category:
Statistical Analysis

Summary:
Returns the count of cells that meet criteria in multiple ranges.

Syntax:
COUNTIFS(Range1; Criterion1 [; Range2; Criterion2 [; ... ;[Range127; Criterion127]])

Returns:
Returns a non-negative integer value which is the number of cells in Range1, Range2, .... Range127 which meet their corresponding criteria Criterion1, Criterion2, ... Criterion127.

Arguments:
Range1 is a range of cells, a name of a named range or a label of a column or a row containing values for counting and finding the corresponding criterion.

Criterion1 is a string expression representing a logical condition or a cell reference to such string expression. The expression can contain text, numbers, regular expressions or wildcards (if enabled in calculation options). If you put the criteria in a cell as a string, quotation marks(") are not required.

Range2 and all the following mean the same as Range1.

Criterion2 and all the following mean the same as Criterion1.


 * Range1, Range2, ... and Criterion1, Criterion2, ... must have the same size, otherwise the function returns err:502 - Invalid argument.
 * The logical relation between criteria can be defined as logical AND (conjunction). In other words, if and only if all given criteria are met, a value from the corresponding cell of the given range is taken into calculation.
 * If a cell contains TRUE, it is treated as 1, if a cell contains FALSE – as 0 (zero).

Additional details:
The search supports wildcards or regular expressions. With regular expressions enabled, you can enter "all.*", for example to find the first location of "all" followed by any characters. If you want to search for a text that is also a regular expression, you must either precede every character with a "\" character, or enclose the text into \Q...\E. You can switch the automatic evaluation of wildcards or regular expression on and off in.

Examples:
Consider the following table

In all examples below, ranges for calculation contain the row #6, which is ignored because it contains text.

Using wildcard characters
The wildcard characters question mark (?), asterisk(*), or tilde (~) can be used in criteria. A question mark (?) matches any one character and an asterisk (*) matches zero or more characters of any kind.

Reference to a cell as a criterion
If you need to change a criterion easily, you may want to specify it in a separate cell and use a reference to this cell in the condition of the COUNTIFS function. For example, the above function can be rewritten as follows:

More examples
For more examples, download and view this [[Media:Calc_Functions_ifs.ods | Calc spreadsheet]].

Related LibreOffice functions:
COUNT

COUNTA

COUNTBLANK

COUNTIF

AVERAGEIFS

MAXIFS

MINIFS

SUMIFS

ODF standard:
Section 6.13.10

Equivalent Excel functions:
COUNTIFS