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QUALITY OF DATA

Data Quality Framework

In the article, "Beyond Accuracy: What data quality means to data consumers,” Wang and Strong
present results of a survey conducted to understand data quality dimensions from the point of view of
people using data. Their starting assumption is that “data consumers have a much broader data
quality conceptualization than IS professionals realize”. In summarizing previous work on data
quality dimensions, they point out the limits of both an intuitive and the theoretical approach to data
quality; both focus on development characteristics rather than use characteristics of data.

Wang and Strong define Data Quality as “data that are fit for use by data consumers,” and they
define Data Quality Dimensions as “a set of data quality attributes that represent a single aspect
or construct of data quality”. To establish their dimensions, they first collected a set of 118 attributes
of data identified by consumers themselves. Next, they asked survey respondents to categorize the
characteristics and to rate their importance about data use. Wang and Strong performed factor
analysis on the results and re-surveyed to understand the association of dimensions with categories
of data quality.

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Intrinsic Data Quality : It denotes that data have quality in their own right; understood
largely as the extent to which data values are in conformance with the actual or true values.
Intrinsically good data is accurate, correct, and objective, and comes from a reputable
source. Dimensions include accuracy, objectivity, believability, and reputation.
Contextual Data Quality : It points to the requirement that data quality must be
considered within the context of the task at hand, understood largely as the extent to
which data is applicable (pertinent) to the task of the data user. The focus of contextual Data
Quality is the data consumer’s task, not the context of representation itself. For example,
contextually appropriate data must be relevant to the consumer, in terms of timeliness and
completeness. Dimensions include value-added, relevancy, timeliness, completeness, and the
appropriate amount of data.
Representational Data Quality : Representational data quality refers to the format of the
data (concise and consistent representation) and the degree to which one can derive
meaning from them (interpretability and ease of understanding). The category is “based on
the direct usability of data”. Wang and Strong (1996) describe representational consistency as
data that are continuously presented in an identical format, the consistency as data that are
continuously presented in an identical format, consistently represented and formatted, as well
as compatible with data that were presented beforehand. Individual dimensions related to
representational data quality are interpretability, ease of understanding, concise
representation, and consistent representation.
Accessibility Data Quality : Accessibility data quality highlights the significance of the roles
and permissions required to access systems. Related dimensions are accessibility and
access security. Accessibility is the extent to which data is available or obtainable, as well as
the ease with which it can be made available to the data consumer, while access security is
about restricting and controlling access. If data cannot be accessed, a data consumer
cannot assess other quality aspects of the data like accuracy, uniqueness, completeness,
and so on. The system must also be protected to avoid misappropriation of data.

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