Viewing most used keyword tags in Lightroom

My department is making an overhaul on our keyword usage and we want to figure out which keyword tags have been used the most and which ones are rare and uncommon. Is there a way to export a spreadsheet and/or view the keyword statistics?
We are using Lightroom 4 - thanks!

The Reportamus plugin may be another step in the right direction:
http://www.robcole.com/Rob/ProductsAndServices/ReportamusLrPlugin
It outputs keyword usage statistics to a log file, and the clipboard...

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