Data Quality Assessment Framework (DQAF)

The Data Quality Assessment Framework (DQAF) is a data quality framework developed by the International Monetary Fund (IMF). IRES names it as one of the established national/international quality frameworks — along with the European Statistics Code of Practice, the Statistics Canada Quality Assurance Framework, and the Code of Good Statistical Practice for Latin America and the Caribbean — that the UN’s National Quality Assurance Framework (NQAF) Template drew heavily upon and was designed to be in close alignment with [IRES, Ch. IX, para. 9.9, PDF p. 129, 2018]. A mapping of the DQAF (and the other listed frameworks) to the NQAF Template is available on the UNSD NQAF website [IRES, Ch. IX, para. 9.9, PDF p. 129, 2018].

confidence: medium — this page currently covers only the DQAF’s role as one of the frameworks named in Chapter IX Section B as an alignment reference for the NQAF Template; its own structure, content and IMF custodianship are not yet drawn from the source and may be expanded if a document treating the DQAF directly enters the corpus.

Related

• Quality Assurance Frameworks — the NQAF Template concept page, which places the DQAF among its four alignment references and reproduces Box 9.1 in full
• IRES Chapter IX — Data Quality Assurance and Metadata — the Chapter IX digest this page supports