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    Demographic report counts

    I have a table of clients with demographic information (sex, race, ethnicity, marital status, age, primary language), and now I need to create a report that totals the number of clients for each of the values in each of those fields.
    so lets say i want to look at marital status, sex, and primary Language.

    Marital status options are
    Single
    Married
    Divorced

    And language options are based off a table that can be updated.

    what i want to do is create a report that has the total of all the different demographic fields involved, so i want it to look like this

    Marital Status Totals
    Single 213
    Married 466
    Divorced 2431

    Primary Language totals
    English 3462
    Spanish 2311

    Gender Totals
    Male 5422
    Female 5454

    I tried using groups and sub-reports with groups and it always combines the groups into embedded sub-groups so i get something like this. (I also tried using cross-tab and summary operations and they end up the same way)

    Single 50
    Male 25
    Female 25
    Divorced 75
    Male 50
    Female 25
    Married 100
    Male 54
    Female 46

    I could manually create a calculated field for each viable field value for each of the 6 fields, but that would be... a nightmare. Is there any way to do what i'm describing? Thanks!

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    Re: Demographic report counts

    I would use something like this. It has a calculated field for each "watch" type, and just adds 1 when true, and 0 when not, thus giving you the totals. Depending on how the rest of your report is set up, you may need to modify the groupings (e.g., GRP->GRAND,GRP->DETAIL).

    Marital Status Totals
    Single 213 -- total(iif(martial_status="Single",1,0),grp->detail)
    Married 466 -- total(iif(martial_status="Married",1,0),grp->detail)
    Divorced 2431 -- total(iif(martial_status="Divorced",1,0),grp->detail)

    Primary Language totals
    English 3462 -- total(iif(prim_lang="English",1,0),grp->detail)
    Spanish 2311 -- total(iif(prim_lang="Spanish",1,0),grp->detail)

    Gender Totals
    Male 5422 -- total(iif(gender="Male",1,0),grp->detail)
    Female 5454 -- total(iif(gender="Female",1,0),grp->detail)
    Stephen Pilon
    Associate Librarian
    Christendom College

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      #3
      Re: Demographic report counts

      Thanks for your reply stephen! that kind of structure would work if the groupings were static (like on an aging report), but i want the users to be able to add/remove languages, for example, without having to add new calculated fields. I'm not sure if this is possible with alpha tools, I may have to do some pre-processing for the report.

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        #4
        Re: Demographic report counts

        Sounds like you need a crosstab.
        I have never enjoyed using this in A5, and tend to switch to excel's equiv, pivot table.
        Chris Tanti
        Technical Support

        Nuance & Fathom Ltd - The data-driven marketing agency

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          #5
          Re: Demographic report counts

          Chris,
          I did try using a cross tab operation, but found that it works the same way groups do in reports; they embed groups within each other. I may be wrong but I don't think cross-tabs will work either. Thanks for the suggestion though!

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