Purpose of the Data Quality Statement Tool

The Data Quality Statement Tool encourages informed decision-making by:

• assisting data users, data producers, data custodians, and data owners to communicate the key data quality issues in a Data Quality Statement
• providing information about data quality to enable information use and re-use by the wider community
• assisting people using statistical data to understand how the data can be used, and assess whether it can be used for the purpose they have in mind

The benefits of the Data Quality Statement Tool are that it:

• provides a clear, simple and methodical process for developing a Data Quality Statement
• uses the ABS Data Quality Framework, an endorsed framework, to assess data quality
• information is expressed in plain English that can be readily understood
• provides a method of compiling a Data Quality Statement that enables data users, data producers, data custodians, and data owners to apply a broad and multi-faceted approach to assessing data quality and communicate the key issues in a Data Quality Statement