These first two formulas work in this Metric Sheet.
=COUNTIF({Level-ones}, $[Primary Column]@row)
=COUNTIF({Status}, [Column5]$23)
As seen by the returned values 66 and 21.
When trying to combine as COUNTIFS, it gives unparseable reply for the following formula.
=COUNTIFS({Level-ones}, $[Primary Column]@row1, {Status}, [Column3]$23)
(I also tried =COUNTIFS({Level-ones}, $[Primary Column]@row, {Status}, [Column]$23) variations and without $)
My data source for these columns: