Step 4: Set up Data Quality tracking

What you can do:

Tracking the data quality of submissions allows you to get greater insight from your organization's Inventory. This feature is year-specific, which means that’s necessary to set up the options annually.

How it works

  1. Click “Add/Manage Data”, scroll down, and choose “Admin area”. 

  2. Select “Data anomaly” from the sections available on the left-side panel. As a Super user you have the ability to define your data quality options. You will be able to specify different levels of data quality. For example, measured, estimated, proxy, or 100%, 75%, 50%, 25%.

  3. Once set up, your users will be able to select what type of data is being collected and identify area of improvement. 

FAQs

  • No, it's up to you! In fact, the data quality dropdown fields appear only once a Super User has set up this tracking.

  • After you set up the data quality tracking, a dropdown field will appear in every data entry record. Each time a user enters data, they will be asked to specify the level of data quality for the specific entry.

  • You can decide whether to make the data entry field mandatory or optional. In the setup screen, you will see a checkbox saying “Make this field required for users when amount is entered”. Leave the checkbox empty to make the field optional or check the box to make the field mandatory.

  • The data quality options are specific to each reporting year. This means that you can change them from year to year. However, we recommend being as consistent as possible between years to enable comparisons.

  • You can view a summary of the data quality in the “Raw data summary” table in the Data tab and the data tables found under the “Add/manage data” button.