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July 10, 2006
New Survey Supports Old Assertion
July 10, 2006
One statistic I've heard cited periodically about data quality is the "20% scrap and rework number." That is 20% of the time we, information workers, spend managing and using our data is focused on verifying the accuracy of the data and fixing or compensating for defects. In an IQ maturity assessment conducted at a past employer I was personally able to verify the number. The participants in the assessment said on average they spent 19.7% of their time reconciling data quality issues. But, my assessment pool size was small, less than 20 people and came from one client.
Posted by Frank Dravis at July 10, 2006 4:22 PM
