Re: Percentage of Total Occurances

> I have a table being used for poll results:
>
> id
> poll_id
> question_id
> answer_id
> datestamp
>
> I what to figure out the percentage or respondants that gave each answer. This is based on
> occurance rather than values.

select answer_id,count(*) from polls where poll_id = ?
group by answer_id ;

gives number of response of each answer

total_response = select count(*) from polls where poll_id = ?

getting %age shud be trivial.

Dunno if i missed your question .
>
> I want to be able to figure it out for a single (poll_id,qustion_id) combination and also for
> multiple questions.
>

sorry i do not get it.

> Thanks for your help,
>
> A.
>
>
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