# Dataframe identify rows

**URL:** https://discourse.julialang.org/t/dataframe-identify-rows/35819
**Category:** Data
**Created:** [March 11, 2020, 2:51am UTC](https://discourse.julialang.org/t/dataframe-identify-rows/35819 "2020-03-11T02:51:47Z")
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### Author: ![brett\_knoss](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/julialang/user_avatar/discourse.julialang.org/brett_knoss/32/13050_2.png) [@brett\_knoss](https://discourse.julialang.org/u/brett_knoss)
#### Post date: [March 11, 2020, 2:51am UTC](https://discourse.julialang.org/t/dataframe-identify-rows/35819/1 "2020-03-11T02:51:47Z")

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I made a data frame from an xlsx spreadsheet, which has every month from Jan 1976- to Feb 2020 as columns, and as rows these variables.

```julia
Month-year

Population

Labour force 

Employment 

Full-time employment 

Part-time employment  

Unemployment 

Unemployment 

Participation%

Employment%

```

how do identify a row like ‘Participation%’ into my dataframe?

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### Author: ![Tamas\_Papp](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/julialang/user_avatar/discourse.julialang.org/tamas_papp/32/25949_2.png) [@Tamas\_Papp](https://discourse.julialang.org/u/Tamas_Papp)
#### Post date: [March 11, 2020, 6:42am UTC](https://discourse.julialang.org/t/dataframe-identify-rows/35819/2 "2020-03-11T06:42:33Z")

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`findfirst` in the relevant column.