diff --git a/doc/source/getting_started/intro_tutorials/03_subset_data.rst b/doc/source/getting_started/intro_tutorials/03_subset_data.rst
index 7a4347905ad8d..f328d7b05b5b6 100644
--- a/doc/source/getting_started/intro_tutorials/03_subset_data.rst
+++ b/doc/source/getting_started/intro_tutorials/03_subset_data.rst
@@ -88,7 +88,7 @@ name of the column of interest.
     </ul>
 
 Each column in a :class:`DataFrame` is a :class:`Series`. As a single column is
-selected, the returned object is a pandas :class:`DataFrame`. We can verify this
+selected, the returned object is a pandas :class:`Series`. We can verify this
 by checking the type of the output:
 
 .. ipython:: python