DATA ISSUES
data collection, validating, other
JCPR Advisory Panel report on Research Uses of Administrative
Data. http://www.jcpr.org/report.html
full report and summary are available. "The JCPR Advisory Panel had
four goals: to explore the practical and political considerations in
transforming state program data into research-ready databases; to
evaluate the strengths and weaknesses of administrative data (relative
to that gathered in national surveys) for use in research and in
program performance assessment; to describe the state efforts to use
administrative data in program and policy evaluations; and to outline
initial recommendations for improving the quality and usefulness of
administrative data for policymakers and program administrators."
This report address describes the above.
MIT total data quality management program publications
http://web.mit.edu/tdqm/www/publications.shtml
see
"Knowing-Why About Data Processes and Data Quality."Journal
of Management Information & Systems, Winter 2003-4,
Volume 20, N0.3, pp. 13-39.Yang W. Lee and Diane M. Strong.
From the abstract: "ABSTRACT: Knowledge about work
processes is a prerequisite for performing work. We investigate whether
a certain mode of knowledge, knowing-why, affects work performance and
whether the knowledge held by different work roles matters for work
performance. We operationalize these questions in the specific domain
of data production processes and data quality. We analyze responses
from three roles within data production processes, data collectors,
data custodians, and data consumers, to investigate the effects of
different knowledge modes held by different work roles on data quality.
We find that work roles and the mode of knowledge do matter.
Specifically, data collectors with why-knowledge about the data
production process contribute to producing better quality data.
Overall, knowledge of data collectors is more critical than that of
data custodians.
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