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juliaellershaw
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5 years ago
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Average measure

Hi, I have some survey data and am trying to work out the formula for a measure that will give me the average of the answers for only one of the questions. For example, with this example data, how wo...
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  • amitchandak's avatar
    amitchandak
    5 years ago

    juliaellershaw , Try like

    averageX(filter(Table, Table[Question]="Q1"), Table[Answer])

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juliaellershaw
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5 years ago

Thanks for the formula. I'm getting an error with this seciton "SUMMARIZE('Table','Table'[Q1]," that says it can't find the column for Q1

  • mahoneypat's avatar
    mahoneypat
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    5 years ago

    You need to replace "Table" with the actual name of your table. 

     

    Alternatively, you could just make a table visual on your report page, and add the Question column and the Answer column.  On the Answer column in the field pane, change the aggregation to average.

     

    Regards,

    Pat