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I'm working on a column that I converted from a object to a datetime datatype in Pandas. I'm trying to get a count of how many of observations are there for each year.

This is the column: df_raw['filed_date'] and the output is: 

198894   2017-12-05
198895   2017-12-05
198896   2017-12-05
198897   2017-12-06
198898   2017-12-06
198899   2017-12-07
Name: filed_date, Length: 198900, dtype: datetime64[ns]

I couldn't find a method to just access the date and then daisy chain it to the value_counts() method. Any advice?

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from collecitons import Counter
Counter([date.year for date in df_raw['filed_date'].values])
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If you Have alreday converted it to datetime object, and want to extract other time related info, it can be done in this way,

pd.to_datetime(df_raw['time']).dt.year.value_counts()
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