data["LV2"].value_counts() Out[2]: ANG 33 ITA 33 ALL 23 ESP 20 Name: LV2, dtype: int64 data["LV2"].value_counts(normalize=True) Out[3]: ANG 0.302752 ITA 0.302752 ALL 0.211009 ESP 0.183486 Name: LV2, dtype: float64