Count with pivot tables non numeric

Hi! I have a table in which I have three non numeric columns and I want to count them(G1,simplyfied). I only get it managed to count one of the columns in a pivot table, but I want to have the result you can see in G3 in a pivot table.
Has anyone an idea how to do it, at first without vba?
G1

Rating1	Rating2	Rating3
a	a	b
a	b	b
a	a	b
c	c	a

G3

Category	Count
a	6
b	4
c	2

Many thanks, Jens

hi,

You can do it with a very simple way by using the CountIf function.

try this solution: View attachment For JensT.xlsx

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