title: Accessing first column of pandas value_counts
body: <p>I'm trying to use value_counts() function from Python's pandas package to find the frequency of items in a column. This works and outputs the following:</p>
  
  <pre><code>57     1811
  62      630
  71      613
  53      217
  59      185
  68       88
  52       70
  
  Name: hospitalized, dtype: int64
  </code></pre>
  
  <p>In which the first column is the item and the right column is its frequency in the column.</p>
  
  <p>From there, I wanted to access the first column of items and iterate through that in a for loop. I want to be able to access the item of each row and check if it is equal to another value. If this is true, I want to be able to access the second column and divide it by another number.</p>
  
  <p>My big issue is accessing the first column from the .value_counts() output. Is it possible to access this column and if so, how? The columns aren't named anything specific (since it's just the value_counts() output) so I'm unsure how to access them. </p>