USG institutions must ensure that data is being managed effectively by following data system documentation, data elements and definitions, data quality, and data availability.
Maintain a listing ofmission-critical data systemsalong with information essential to the effective loading, maintenance, use of, as well as reporting from, those systems.
In addition, for systems that are part of routine data collection and reporting,data element dictionariesshould be maintained.
USG organizations must ensure that information is of thehighest possible qualityto facilitate effective decision-making.
For all data domains and their respective data systems, the organization should document and socialize to data users theexpectations and processesaround theavailability of each data resource.
Institutions should ensure theirdata retention and destructionpolicies and procedures comply with the USG policy referenced atUSG Records Management.
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