The primary objective of this booklet is to introduce students to basic statistical skills that are useful in the analysis of public policy data. A few, selected statistical methods are presented, and theory is not emphasized. Chapter 1 provides instruction for using tables, bar graphs, bar graphs with grouped data, trend lines, pie diagrams, percentages to describe differences, and the mean, median, and mode. Range, variance, standard deviation, z-scores, and coefficient of variance are described in chapter 2. Chapters 3 and 4 examine relationships between variables, while chapters 5 and 6 describe measures of association and include the: (1) del statistic; (2) t-test; (3) scatterplot; (4) linear regression analysis; (5) regression line; and (6) Pearson's R superscript 2. Selected formulas and exercises are provided and tables and figures are included. (JHP)