COMPAT: value_counts always return int64 dtype, xref pandas-dev#10876

Author: jreback

pandas/core/categorical.py

@@ -1046,7 +1046,7 @@ def value_counts(self, dropna=True):
         ix = Categorical(ix, categories=cat,
                 ordered=obj.ordered, fastpath=True)
 
-        return Series(count, index=CategoricalIndex(ix))
+        return Series(count, index=CategoricalIndex(ix), dtype='int64')
 
     def get_values(self):
         """ Return the values.