National Data Quality Forum (NDQF) is a multi-stakeholder collaborative platform for a sustained dialogue among the producers and consumers of demographic and health data in India on issues related to data quality and potential solutions, and for supporting institutionalization of promising solutions.

Goal

Improve health and demographic data ecosystem in India by strengthening data quality as well as the systems that create and manage data; by deepening interests on the importance of good quality data among both producers and consumers and educate consumers to demand data of good quality.

Roadmap

  • Assessment stage-Involves advanced analytics, process audits, review of existing tools and quality assurance guidelines.
  • Solution design stage-Involves developing plans and guidelines to improve data quality, crowdsourcing of ideas and solutions (Data-Q-Thons) and testing and scale-up of solutions.
  • Knowledge exchange-Involves building a community of practice, organizing knowledge series to discuss data quality issues and solutions.
  • Institutional Strategy- Involves providing technical support to develop organizational strategy, organizing trainings of producers and consumers

Approach

  • Convene and equip stakeholders in research and data analytics with a deeper understanding of data quality and tools to communicate and advocate for enhanced quality and support them to execute data quality related activities within their agencies.
  • Build capacity and in-house expertise in institutions and individuals to implement robust data quality assurance (DQA) activities and extend technical assistance to implement DQA protocols and standard operating procedures (SOPs)
  • Generate novel solutions for improving data quality through the development and testing of innovations

Data Quality Library

The Data Quality Library is a resource collection of all scientific literature on data quality produced around the world. Become acquainted with books, periodicals, and research articles on data quality from trusted publishers and learn about various research tools.

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Knowledge Centre

This Knowledge Centre features publications, blogs, webinars, infographics, andother knowledge products on data quality generated by the activities of NDQF. These resources aim to inform audiences on the importance of data quality and the emerging solutions to address data quality challenges.

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Leadership

Dr. M. Vishnu Vardhana Rao

Dr. M. Vishnu Vardhana Rao holds PHD in statistics from Osmania University, Hyderabad and MTech (IT) from Punjabi University. He has nearly three decades of experience in health and nutrition in the speciality of Biostatistics, Big data and information technology, both as a scientist at the National Institute of Nutrition, Hyderabad, and the current Director of ICMR-National Institute of Medical Statistics, New Delhi. Dr. Rao has published more than 100 papers in national and international journals and 25 reports. Dr. Rao is a recipient of several awards, including the NAMS Oration Award for the year 2019.

Dr. Niranjan Saggurti

Dr. Niranjan Saggurti is Director of the Population Council’s office in India. He provides strategic and technical leadership to Council’s work filling important knowledge gaps for policymakers and program managers – building evidence on what works and why. He has 20 years of experience in public health and policy-oriented research in sexual and reproductive health, migration, alcohol, gender-based violence, community mobilization and the intersection of these issues. He has published several papers in peer-reviewed journals on these topics. He currently serves as research advisor on several committees of the governmental and non-governmental organisations.

Tools

NDQF and its partners have developed two data quality assessment tools. The first one is an outlier detection tool, capable of detecting potential outliers in a dataset. The second one developed by IIIT, Delhi is data quality labelling tool, designed to provide a comprehensive quantitative assessment of the quality of a dataset.

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News & Updates

News and other knowledge products produced by the National Data Quality Forum.

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