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midorobaka
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How to do an average of text column with a whole number column?

I am new to Power BI and have this problem I cannot solve. I have a two columns one with the Gender (Male/Female) and the other column with the Age. My question is how can i make a measure of the average age of Male and Female?

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jthomson
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Assuming you've made a measure that works out the average of your column, you just need to apply a filter, something like:

 

calculate([youraverageagemeasure],genderfield="Male")

 

should work for you

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Not entirely sure how averagex works, and it seems unnecessary compared to plain old average in this case - just make a measure AverageAge = AVERAGE(youragecolumn), then if it works for everything combined, then feed that into other measures as described above

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jthomson
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Solution Sage

Assuming you've made a measure that works out the average of your column, you just need to apply a filter, something like:

 

calculate([youraverageagemeasure],genderfield="Male")

 

should work for you

I have write it like this but it doesn't work:

 

Average Male = CALCULATE(AVERAGEX('Statistic'; ' Statistic[Gender]="Male"); ' Statistic'[Age]))

Not entirely sure how averagex works, and it seems unnecessary compared to plain old average in this case - just make a measure AverageAge = AVERAGE(youragecolumn), then if it works for everything combined, then feed that into other measures as described above

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