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BUG: TypeError: Int64 when using pd.pivot_table with Int64 values #47477

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Reproducible Example

import pandas as pd
import io
data = ''',country_live,employment_status,age
26983,United States,Fully employed by a company / organization,21
51776,Turkey,Working student,18
53092,India,Fully employed by a company / organization,21
44612,France,Fully employed by a company / organization,21
7043,United States,"Self-employed (a person earning income directly from one's own business, trade, or profession)",60
50421,Other country,Fully employed by a company / organization,21
2552,United Kingdom,Fully employed by a company / organization,30
21166,China,Fully employed by a company / organization,21
29144,Italy,Fully employed by a company / organization,40
36828,United States,Fully employed by a company / organization,40'''

df = pd.read_csv(io.StringIO(data))
(df
 .astype({'age': 'Int64'})
 .pivot_table(index='country_live', columns='employment_status',
     values='age', aggfunc='mean')
)

Issue Description

This aggregation raises a TypeError: Int64

However, it you change age to int64 the code works. Also note that it works if you perform the same operation via .groupby/.unstack:

ie:

(df
 #.astype({'age': 'Int64'})
 .pivot_table(index='country_live', columns='employment_status',
     values='age', aggfunc='mean')
)

This also works:

(df
 .astype({'age': 'Int64'})
 .groupby(['country_live', 'employment_status'])
 .age
 .mean()
 .unstack()
)

Expected Behavior

I expect to see the following result:

country_live Fully employed by a company / organization Self-employed (a person earning income directly from one's own business, trade, or profession) Working student
China 21.0
France 21.0
India 21.0
Italy 40.0
Other country 21.0
Turkey 18.0
United Kingdom 30.0
United States 30.5 60.0

Installed Versions

INSTALLED VERSIONS

commit : 4bfe3d0
python : 3.8.10.final.0
python-bits : 64
OS : Linux
OS-release : 5.10.16.3-microsoft-standard-WSL2
Version : #1 SMP Fri Apr 2 22:23:49 UTC 2021
machine : x86_64
processor : x86_64
byteorder : little
LC_ALL : None
LANG : C.UTF-8
LOCALE : en_US.UTF-8

pandas : 1.4.2
numpy : 1.19.4
pytz : 2022.1
dateutil : 2.8.1
pip : 20.0.2
setuptools : 44.0.0
Cython : 0.29.24
pytest : 7.1.1
hypothesis : 6.8.1
sphinx : 4.3.2
blosc : None
feather : None
xlsxwriter : 1.3.7
lxml.etree : 4.6.2
html5lib : 1.1
pymysql : None
psycopg2 : 2.9.3
jinja2 : 3.0.3
IPython : 7.19.0
pandas_datareader: None
bs4 : 4.10.0
bottleneck : None
brotli : None
fastparquet : None
fsspec : 2021.07.0
gcsfs : None
markupsafe : 2.1.1
matplotlib : 3.3.3
numba : 0.52.0
numexpr : 2.8.1
odfpy : None
openpyxl : 3.0.5
pandas_gbq : None
pyarrow : 8.0.0
pyreadstat : 1.1.4
pyxlsb : None
s3fs : None
scipy : 1.5.4
snappy : None
sqlalchemy : 1.4.27
tables : None
tabulate : 0.8.9
xarray : 0.18.2
xlrd : 2.0.1
xlwt : None
zstandard : None

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BugNA - MaskedArraysRelated to pd.NA and nullable extension arraysRegressionFunctionality that used to work in a prior pandas versionReshapingConcat, Merge/Join, Stack/Unstack, Explode

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