diff --git a/stdlib/SparseArrays/src/sparsevector.jl b/stdlib/SparseArrays/src/sparsevector.jl
index ecf3c53830b301..11d9c2a3dbdbe0 100644
--- a/stdlib/SparseArrays/src/sparsevector.jl
+++ b/stdlib/SparseArrays/src/sparsevector.jl
@@ -58,6 +58,11 @@ function nonzeroinds(x::SparseColumnView)
     return y
 end
 
+indtype(x::SparseColumnView) = indtype(parent(x))
+function nnz(x::SparseColumnView)
+    rowidx, colidx = parentindices(x)
+    return length(nzrange(parent(x), colidx))
+end
 
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