Data quality
DEFINITION: Extent to which data adheres to the six dimensions of qualities – which are accuracy, reliability, completeness, precision, timeliness and integrity.
SOURCE: Making monitoring and evaluation systems work: a capacity development tool kit. Marelize Görgens and Jody Zall Kusek, The World Bank, Washington, DC, 2009.
RELATED TERMS: baseline data, data, data collection, quality, data collection instrument/tool, data quality