Title: An empirical research on non-technical factors related to statistical data quality in China's enterprises

Authors: Zhenguo Yu, Ying Wang

Addresses: School of Business, Zhejiang University City College, Hangzhou 310015, China. ' School of Business, Zhejiang University City College, Hangzhou 310015, China

Abstract: In market-oriented economy, data are the key factor that helps enterprises to make decisions. In China, many factors affect the data quality of enterprises. The paper chose seven non-technical factors as explanatory variables, three dimensions of data quality as dependent variables and one control variable to construct a conceptual model for Chinese enterprises. The model was tested with 152 samples. This research found that the main factors affecting the data quality are the awareness of higher-level managers, the status of statistical personnel, normalisation of enterprise, knowledge of statistical personnel, the strength of statistical department and enterprise computerisation.

Keywords: statistical data; affecting factors; veracity; timeliness; relevance; empirical research; China; data quality; information quality.

DOI: 10.1504/IJIQ.2007.014609

International Journal of Information Quality, 2007 Vol.1 No.2, pp.193 - 208

Published online: 18 Jul 2007 *

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