Counting male and female children

David33 · Post by **David33** » 12 Dec 2005 20:19

Is there a way to count male and female children separately in a query. I have tried modifying the standard 'Count children (per family)' query, but can't get anything to work.

Thanks

David

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YouTube · Post by **Jane** » 12 Dec 2005 20:48

Not directly that I can think of, obviously if you have excel or open office you can do a quick query with the family as child number in a column and the sex in a column and cut and paste in to excel and do a pivot table for the answer.

David33 · Post by **David33** » 13 Dec 2005 14:21

Thanks, Jane. I have been doing it, as you suggest, in an Excel spreadsheet, but it's a tedious business! We get used to FH being able to anything we throw at it that it that it comes as a bit of a shock to find that there are some things it can't do. Any chance of this going on the wish list? I would have thought that if users want to count children, they would want to count males and females separately.

David

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