The SPSS Base 11.0 Brief Guide provides a set of tutorials designed to acquaint the beginning user with the various components of the SPSS system. This manual can be used in sequence or as a reference for additional information. It is a supplement to the on-line tutorial that is included with the SPSS 11.0 soft-ware. The guide provides introductions to using the Help System and Data Editor, importing your data into SPSS, working with statistics and output, creating charts with SPSS 11.0s interactive graphics, modi-fying data values, working with syntax and data files, calculating new data values, sorting and selecting data, and brief introductions to topics such as the SPSS 11.0 ANOVA models and regression analysis.