From 4d6d6b9f45dc9a793827be53114f724b4c4873fd Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: jreback <jeff@reback.net>
Date: Thu, 2 Jan 2014 06:25:54 -0500
Subject: [PATCH] BUG: dropna dtype comp issue related (GH5815)

---
 pandas/core/frame.py | 2 +-
 1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 1 deletion(-)

diff --git a/pandas/core/frame.py b/pandas/core/frame.py
index 36cfbb524ab31..5544cd0b34e3c 100644
--- a/pandas/core/frame.py
+++ b/pandas/core/frame.py
@@ -3954,7 +3954,7 @@ def count(self, axis=0, level=None, numeric_only=False):
             else:
                 result = notnull(frame).sum(axis=axis)
 
-        return result
+        return result.astype('int64')
 
     def _count_level(self, level, axis=0, numeric_only=False):
         if numeric_only: