Vertical Reporting against dimension

Hi,
My client has a dimension table that is 1:1 with fact table for demographic info of each fact record (i.e., Gender, Ethnicity, etc), having separate columns for each demographic.
On the reporting side, they want to show these categories and values vertically and pivot with year to show measures like this:
................................2008.....2009
Gender....Male..............123.......456
.............Female...........123.......456
Ethnicity..White.............123.......456
.............Black.............123.......456
.............Asian............123.......456
Problem is there is no 'Category' column, and also these values for each category are in separate columns. Is there a way to do this report in Answers or RPD? If not, is there anything that can be done to the data model without increasing the number of rows?
Thanks

If the categories are not too many (for example 3 or 4) and composed by 2 fields with the same format (varchar)
You can use in Answers the option "Combine with similar Request"
So your answer will be:
select 'Gender', Dim.gender,Year, qty
Combine with similar Request
select 'Ethnicity', Dim.Ethnicity,Year, qty
Then you will have to do the pivot table...
Edited by: Francesco on Aug 10, 2010 3:43 PM

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