diff --git a/doc/source/user_guide/io.rst b/doc/source/user_guide/io.rst
index 67441554c16fe..3dcc52fb63eb7 100644
--- a/doc/source/user_guide/io.rst
+++ b/doc/source/user_guide/io.rst
@@ -471,7 +471,9 @@ Setting ``use_nullable_dtypes=True`` will result in nullable dtypes for every co
    3,4.5,False,b,6,7.5,True,a,12-31-2019,
    """
 
-   pd.read_csv(StringIO(data), use_nullable_dtypes=True, parse_dates=["i"])
+   df = pd.read_csv(StringIO(data), use_nullable_dtypes=True, parse_dates=["i"])
+   df
+   df.dtypes
 
 .. _io.categorical: