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4 Data Quality
Assurance
addressed. However, data accuracy is the most important dimension, and con-
trolling that must come first.
4.1 Goals of a Data Quality Assurance Program
A data quality assurance program is an explicit combination of organization,
methodologies, and activities that exist for the purpose of reaching and main-
taining high levels of data quality. The term
assurance
puts it in the same cate-
gory as other functions corporations are used to funding and maintaining.
Quality assurance, quality control, inspection, and audit are terms applied to
other activities ...