Tool Question - What tool should I use?

[WetlandMan]

I'm working with a very large set of zoning data that encompasses  several thousand towns and  spans multiple states. As part of our analysis I had to collate similar zones with similar zones (i.e. "Rural" became 'Low Density Rural Residential', or "Residential" became 'High Density Urban Residential'). Now that that work has been completed, I've been asked to provide a summary table that breaks down which zones were collated with what. I'd like to run a tool, similar to say something like statistics (within the attribute table) that would allow me to know how many different zones we started with. Is there a tool that can tell me the total number of original zones if they are in a text format? I preserved that data in the original dataset for this very reason 

[graeme_hill · Accepted solution]

Summary statistics is the tool for this, it uses case fields and for each unique combination of values in the case field(s) a summary statistic can be calculated which count or sum of area would be most suitable.

[WetlandMan]

I actually went back to try to solve this myself and had reached a solution and was working on the writeup of the data and never thought to come back to look. This was how I solved it. Thanks for helping the community!