How do I create a formula to convert words to numbers?

Hi,
Basically my spreadsheet is almost entirely words and as numbers (or excel for that matter) work with words (although this I have suggested as an improvement), I need to convert all the words to numerics.
For example. I have a question with a drop down asking for male or female (I've done drop down lists as I want to cross analyse the results at a later date). I need to create a formula so that numbers automatically counts up all the males and females and puts them in another overall table. I guess I do this by creating a formula for numbers to turn all 'males' into 1 and all 'females' into 2, then ask numbers to count up all the 1's and 2's and put them in a table?
Here are a couple of images which may or may not explain it further:
Raw form:
Second table:
Message was edited by: lawero
Message was edited by: lawero

lawero wrote:
For example. I have a question with a drop down asking for male or female (I've done drop down lists as I want to cross analyse the results at a later date). I need to create a formula so that numbers automatically counts up all the males and females and puts them in another overall table. I guess I do this by creating a formula for numbers to turn all 'males' into 1 and all 'females' into 2, then ask numbers to count up all the 1's and 2's and put them in a table?
Wasn't how to "automatically count up all the males and females" already answered in my first post to your question How do I create a graph in numbers? The coloured text is a link to that thread.
Regards,
Barry

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