Evaluating the Data Quality of a National Sample of Young Sexual and Gender Minorities Recruited Using Social Media: The Influence of Different Design Formats

2020 ◽  
pp. 089443932092824 ◽  
Author(s):  
Michael J. Stern ◽  
Erin Fordyce ◽  
Rachel Carpenter ◽  
Melissa Heim Viox ◽  
Stuart Michaels ◽  
...  

Social media recruitment is no longer an uncharted avenue for survey research. The results thus far provide evidence of an engaging means of recruiting hard-to-reach populations. Questions remain, however, regarding whether the data collected using this method of recruitment produce quality data. This article assesses one aspect that may influence the quality of data gathered through nonprobability sampling using social media advertisements for a hard-to-reach sexual and gender minority youth population: recruitment design formats. The data come from the Survey of Today’s Adolescent Relationships and Transitions, which used a variety of forms of advertisements as survey recruitment tools on Facebook, Instagram, and Snapchat. Results demonstrate that design decisions such as the format of the advertisement (e.g., video or static) and the use of eligibility language on the advertisements impact the quality of the data as measured by break-off rates and the use of nonsubstantive responses. Additionally, the type of device used affected the measures of data quality.

2017 ◽  
Vol 4 (1) ◽  
pp. 25-31 ◽  
Author(s):  
Diana Effendi

Information Product Approach (IP Approach) is an information management approach. It can be used to manage product information and data quality analysis. IP-Map can be used by organizations to facilitate the management of knowledge in collecting, storing, maintaining, and using the data in an organized. The  process of data management of academic activities in X University has not yet used the IP approach. X University has not given attention to the management of information quality of its. During this time X University just concern to system applications used to support the automation of data management in the process of academic activities. IP-Map that made in this paper can be used as a basis for analyzing the quality of data and information. By the IP-MAP, X University is expected to know which parts of the process that need improvement in the quality of data and information management.   Index term: IP Approach, IP-Map, information quality, data quality. REFERENCES[1] H. Zhu, S. Madnick, Y. Lee, and R. Wang, “Data and Information Quality Research: Its Evolution and Future,” Working Paper, MIT, USA, 2012.[2] Lee, Yang W; at al, Journey To Data Quality, MIT Press: Cambridge, 2006.[3] L. Al-Hakim, Information Quality Management: Theory and Applications. Idea Group Inc (IGI), 2007.[4] “Access : A semiotic information quality framework: development and comparative analysis : Journal ofInformation Technology.” [Online]. Available: http://www.palgravejournals.com/jit/journal/v20/n2/full/2000038a.html. [Accessed: 18-Sep-2015].[5] Effendi, Diana, Pengukuran Dan Perbaikan Kualitas Data Dan Informasi Di Perguruan Tinggi MenggunakanCALDEA Dan EVAMECAL (Studi Kasus X University), Proceeding Seminar Nasional RESASTEK, 2012, pp.TIG.1-TI-G.6.


2021 ◽  
pp. 227797522110118
Author(s):  
Amit K. Srivastava ◽  
Rajhans Mishra

Social media platforms have become very popular these days among individuals and organizations. On the one hand, organizations use social media as a potential tool to create awareness of their products among consumers, and on the other hand, social media data is useful to predict the national crisis, election polls, stock prediction, etc. However, nowadays, a debate is going on about the quality of data generated on social media platforms, whether it is relevant for prediction and generalization. The article discusses the relevance and quality of data obtained from social media in the context of research and development. Social media data quality issues may impact the generalizability and reproducibility of the results of the study. The paper explores possible reasons for quality issues in the data generated over social media platforms along with the suggestive measures to minimize them using the proposed social media data quality framework.


Author(s):  
Benjamin Ngugi ◽  
Jafar Mana ◽  
Lydia Segal

As the nation confronts a growing tide of security breaches, the importance of having quality data breach information systems becomes paramount. Yet too little attention is paid to evaluating these systems. This article draws on data quality scholarship to develop a yardstick that assesses the quality of data breach notification systems in the U.S. at both the state and national levels from the perspective of key stakeholders, who include law enforcement agencies, consumers, shareholders, investors, researchers, and businesses that sell security products. Findings reveal major shortcomings that reduce the value of data breach information to these stakeholders. The study concludes with detailed recommendations for reform.


Author(s):  
Patrick Ohemeng Gyaase ◽  
Joseph Tei Boye-Doe ◽  
Christiana Okantey

Quality data from the Expanded Immunization Programme (EPI), which is pivotal in reducing infant mortalities globally, is critical for knowledge management on the EPI. This chapter assesses the quality of data from the EPI for the six childhood killer diseases from the EPI tally books, monthly reports, and the District Health Information Management System (DHIMS II) using the Data Quality Self-Assessment (DQS) tool of WHO. The study found high availability and completeness of data in the EPI tally books and the monthly EPI reports. The accuracy and currency of data on all antigens from EPI tally books compared to reported number issued were comparatively low. The composite quality index of the data from the EPI is thus low, an indication poor supervision of the EPI programme in the health facilities. There is therefore, the need for effective monitoring and data validation at the point of collection and entry to improve the data quality for knowledge management on the EPI programme.


Author(s):  
Nishita Shewale

Abstract: To introduce unified information systems, this will provide different establishments with an insight on how data related activities take place and there results with assured quality. Considering data accumulation, replication, missing entities, incorrect formatting, anomalies etc. can come to light in the collection of data in different information systems, which can cause an array of adverse effects on data quality, the subject of data quality should be treated with better results. This paper inspects the data quality problems in information systems and introduces the new techniques that enable organizations to improve their quality of data. Keywords: Information Systems (IS), Data Quality, Data Cleaning, Data Profiling, Standardization, Database, Organization


2020 ◽  
Author(s):  
Cristina Costa-Santos ◽  
Ana Luísa Neves ◽  
Ricardo Correia ◽  
Paulo Santos ◽  
Matilde Monteiro-Soares ◽  
...  

AbstractBackgroundHigh-quality data is crucial for guiding decision making and practicing evidence-based healthcare, especially if previous knowledge is lacking. Nevertheless, data quality frailties have been exposed worldwide during the current COVID-19 pandemic. Focusing on a major Portuguese surveillance dataset, our study aims to assess data quality issues and suggest possible solutions.MethodsOn April 27th 2020, the Portuguese Directorate-General of Health (DGS) made available a dataset (DGSApril) for researchers, upon request. On August 4th, an updated dataset (DGSAugust) was also obtained. The quality of data was assessed through analysis of data completeness and consistency between both datasets.ResultsDGSAugust has not followed the data format and variables as DGSApril and a significant number of missing data and inconsistencies were found (e.g. 4,075 cases from the DGSApril were apparently not included in DGSAugust). Several variables also showed a low degree of completeness and/or changed their values from one dataset to another (e.g. the variable ‘underlying conditions’ had more than half of cases showing different information between datasets). There were also significant inconsistencies between the number of cases and deaths due to COVID-19 shown in DGSAugust and by the DGS reports publicly provided daily.ConclusionsThe low quality of COVID-19 surveillance datasets limits its usability to inform good decisions and perform useful research. Major improvements in surveillance datasets are therefore urgently needed - e.g. simplification of data entry processes, constant monitoring of data, and increased training and awareness of health care providers - as low data quality may lead to a deficient pandemic control.


2021 ◽  
pp. 004912412199553
Author(s):  
Jan-Lucas Schanze

An increasing age of respondents and cognitive impairment are usual suspects for increasing difficulties in survey interviews and a decreasing data quality. This is why survey researchers tend to label residents in retirement and nursing homes as hard-to-interview and exclude them from most social surveys. In this article, I examine to what extent this label is justified and whether quality of data collected among residents in institutions for the elderly really differs from data collected within private households. For this purpose, I analyze the response behavior and quality indicators in three waves of Survey of Health, Ageing and Retirement in Europe. To control for confounding variables, I use propensity score matching to identify respondents in private households who share similar characteristics with institutionalized residents. My results confirm that most indicators of response behavior and data quality are worse in institutions compared to private households. However, when controlling for sociodemographic and health-related variables, differences get very small. These results suggest the importance of health for the data quality irrespective of the housing situation.


2020 ◽  
Vol 10 (1) ◽  
pp. 1-16
Author(s):  
Isaac Nyabisa Oteyo ◽  
Mary Esther Muyoka Toili

AbstractResearchers in bio-sciences are increasingly harnessing technology to improve processes that were traditionally pegged on pen-and-paper and highly manual. The pen-and-paper approach is used mainly to record and capture data from experiment sites. This method is typically slow and prone to errors. Also, bio-science research activities are often undertaken in remote and distributed locations. Timeliness and quality of data collected are essential. The manual method is slow to collect quality data and relay it in a timely manner. Capturing data manually and relaying it in real time is a daunting task. The data collected has to be associated to respective specimens (objects or plants). In this paper, we seek to improve specimen labelling and data collection guided by the following questions; (1) How can data collection in bio-science research be improved? (2) How can specimen labelling be improved in bio-science research activities? We present WebLog, an application that we prototyped to aid researchers generate specimen labels and collect data from experiment sites. We use the application to convert the object (specimen) identifiers into quick response (QR) codes and use them to label the specimens. Once a specimen label is successfully scanned, the application automatically invokes the data entry form. The collected data is immediately sent to the server in electronic form for analysis.


2008 ◽  
Vol 13 (5) ◽  
pp. 378-389 ◽  
Author(s):  
Xiaohua Douglas Zhang ◽  
Amy S. Espeseth ◽  
Eric N. Johnson ◽  
Jayne Chin ◽  
Adam Gates ◽  
...  

RNA interference (RNAi) not only plays an important role in drug discovery but can also be developed directly into drugs. RNAi high-throughput screening (HTS) biotechnology allows us to conduct genome-wide RNAi research. A central challenge in genome-wide RNAi research is to integrate both experimental and computational approaches to obtain high quality RNAi HTS assays. Based on our daily practice in RNAi HTS experiments, we propose the implementation of 3 experimental and analytic processes to improve the quality of data from RNAi HTS biotechnology: (1) select effective biological controls; (2) adopt appropriate plate designs to display and/or adjust for systematic errors of measurement; and (3) use effective analytic metrics to assess data quality. The applications in 5 real RNAi HTS experiments demonstrate the effectiveness of integrating these processes to improve data quality. Due to the effectiveness in improving data quality in RNAi HTS experiments, the methods and guidelines contained in the 3 experimental and analytic processes are likely to have broad utility in genome-wide RNAi research. ( Journal of Biomolecular Screening 2008:378-389)


Tunas Agraria ◽  
2021 ◽  
Vol 4 (2) ◽  
pp. 168-174
Author(s):  
Maslusatun Mawadah

The South Jakarta Administrative City Land Office is one of the cities targeted to be a city with complete land administration in 2020. The current condition of land parcel data demands an update, namely improving the quality of data from KW1 to KW6 towards KW1 valid. The purpose of this study is to determine the condition of land data quality in South Jakarta, the implementation of data quality improvement, as well as problems and solutions in implementing data quality improvement. The research method used is qualitative with a descriptive approach. The results showed that the condition of the data quality after the implementation of the improvement, namely KW1 increased from 86.45% to 87.01%. The roles of man, material, machine, and method have been fulfilled and the implementation of data quality improvement is not in accordance with the 2019 Complete City Guidelines in terms of territorial boundary inventory, and there are still obstacles in the implementation of improving the quality of land parcel data, namely the absence of buku tanah, surat ukur, and gambar ukur at the land office, the existence of regional division, the boundaries of the sub district are not yet certain, and the existence of land parcels that have been separated from mapping without being noticed by the office administrator.


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