Group data by age, gender and report requested in MySQL - mysql

Question

I'm having trouble formulating my MySQL statement / query string. I have a table (see sample below)
It's a sample table containing gender, age and report_requested fields. What I would like to have as an output is something like this:
20 years old, male | Total number of users | Total who requested min 1 report | total who requested 2 reports | total 3 or more reports
20 years old female | Total number of users | Total who requested min 1 report | total who requested 2 reports | total 3 or more reports
20 years old combined | Total number of users | Total who requested min 1 report | total who requested 2 reports | total 3 or more reports
21 years old, male | Total number of users | Total who requested min 1 report | total who requested 2 reports | total 3 or more reports
21 years old female | Total number of users | Total who requested min 1 report | total who requested 2 reports | total 3 or more reports
21 years old combined | Total number of users | Total who requested min 1 report | total who requested 2 reports | total 3 or more reports
... etc.
But I'm having a hard time with it. What I just know is to determine the number of users who requested (1,2,3,...etc) credit reports given the gender and age.
Here's what I used:
SELECT COUNT(*) as cnt, report_requested
FROM sampletable WHERE age = '39'
AND gender = 'M' GROUP BY report_requested
Here's the result:
It just return the data for 20 yrs old male, number of users requested 1 credit report, 2 credit reports up to 8 (but this is also wrong since it should combine the number of users who requested 3 credit reports or more)
Can anybody here help me or give me an idea on how I could accomplish this?

Answer 1

Your GROUP BY clause is actually both age and gender since you are trying to aggregate for these two. The way to think about it is that you want exactly one row per age and gender, i.e. 1 row for male/20 yrs, 1 row for female/20 yrs, 1 row for male/21 yrs, etc. So you would do:
GROUP BY age, gender
And instead of report_requested column, I think you need to SUM(report_requested) with a condition on the number of reports requested. This is handled in SQL via the CASE clause. So your query would look like this:
SELECT AGE, GENDER,
SUM(CASE WHEN report_requested = 1 THEN 1 ELSE 0 END) AS 'Total who requested 1 report',
SUM(CASE WHEN report_requested = 2 THEN 1 ELSE 0 END) AS 'Total who requested 2 reports',
SUM(CASE WHEN report_requested >= 3 THEN 1 ELSE 0 END) AS 'Total who requested 3 or more reports'
FROM sampletable
GROUP BY AGE, GENDER
Let me know how it goes. I removed the WHERE clause because I assumed that was for testing only.
EDIT: Updated after the comments below, that it's not the total requested rather total who requested 1 report, total who requested 2 reports, etc.