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Improving the Evidence Base - The Quality of Information Status Report and Recommendations of the EURIM Sub-group on the Quality of Information - in pdf format (174kb)

(This document requires the use of Adobe Acrobat Reader). EURIM, June 2011. "The drive to put central and local government data online, open to public scrutiny, has revealed the long standing problems of quality that lie behind the reluctance of departments and agencies to trust one another's data, let alone share their own lest its shortcomings be revealed. Decisions on spending cuts need to be based on good information, and seen to be.

Meanwhile demands from regulators and government agencies for the collection and retention of data that is not required for operational purposes (but “might” be needed in future) reduce UK competitiveness and add to public sector costs.

The scale and nature of current duplication, inconsistency, confusion and error (both random and systemic) derives from failure to apply the disciplines of information management. The consequences include personal tragedy, avoidable suffering, inefficiency, waste and policy decisions based on mythology, hunch and guesswork - rather than the well-informed analysis of timely and reliable data..."

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