Measuring Data Quality for Ongoing Improvement

Section 6. The DQAF in Depth

“They are structures that embody special kinds of perceptions and awareness. Each is a kind of example or anecdote. Each is a kind of little world that has to be apprehended in depth.”

–Marshall McLuhan, The Book of Probes

The Data Quality Assessment Framework measurement types describe generic ways to measure data quality. A DQAF measurement type is a category within a dimension of data quality that allows for a repeatable pattern of measurement to be executed against any data that fits the criteria required by the type, regardless of specific data content. In developing the listing presented in Section Two, we recognized the need to flesh out these concepts with additional information such as how each type could ...