Grouping by periods - Specific Scenario - Formula/Workaround

Jqarga

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Hi guys,

Wonder if any of you have encountered a similar scenario:

I've got a table similar to the following one, with a few hundreds of different entities where each of them have its own specific "length". Don't know how exactly explain it but I would like to group the Q by buckets of "cycles" (First 4 Q = cycle 1 ; 2nd set of 4Q cycle 2 and so on...until it reaches the following entity where the grouping should be restarted.

As follows:

Entity NameStat Q
Period
Entity A2013Q2
1​
Entity A2013Q3
1​
Entity A2013Q4
1​
Entity A2014Q1
1​
Entity A2014Q2
2​
Entity A2014Q3
2​
Entity A2014Q4
2​
Entity A2015Q1
2​
Entity A2015Q2
3​
Entity B2014Q1
1​
Entity B2014Q2
1​
Entity B2014Q3
1​
Entity B2014Q4
1​
Entity B2015Q1
2​
Entity B2015Q2
2​
Entity C2018Q2
1​
Entity C2018Q3
1​
Entity C2018Q4
1​
Entity C2019Q1
1​
Entity D2017Q3
1​
Entity D2017Q4
1​

I know it's a very specific question but any workaround / formula to solve this would be much appreciated.

Many thanks,

J
 

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1Entity NameStat QPeriod
2Entity A2013Q21
3Entity A2013Q31
4Entity A2013Q41
5Entity A2014Q11
6Entity A2014Q22
7Entity A2014Q32
8Entity A2014Q42
9Entity A2015Q12
10Entity A2015Q23
11Entity B2014Q11
12Entity B2014Q21
13Entity B2014Q31
14Entity B2014Q41
15Entity B2015Q12
16Entity B2015Q22
17Entity C2018Q21
18Entity C2018Q31
19Entity C2018Q41
20Entity C2019Q11
21Entity D2017Q31
22Entity D2017Q41
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C2:C22C2=INT((COUNTIF(A$2:A2,A2)-1)/4)+1
 
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