Australian Government Data Governance Framework (2025)
Key aspects of data governance – Australian Government Data Governance Framework (2025)

Australian Government Data Governance Framework (2025) 4.7.a: 4.7(a) Data utilisation: preparation, sharing decisions and data quality

Use good data management to understand, describe and use data across its lifecycle and, where needed and possible, prepare it for sharing outside the agency, considering the Office of the National Data Commissioner's data sharing principles; manage preparation processes such as cleansing, matching and formatting for analytics under current government guidance (for example the OAIC's guidance on government data matching); have a data quality standard, respond to data quality issues and ideally monitor and address them proactively, with quality effort matched to the data's use and criticality, so that data behind activities with direct impact on individuals, communities and businesses (such as audit, enforcement and compliance) is highly accurate and scrutinised, with appropriate oversight and assurance.

Maintained by Gerard Blokdyk

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  • DQ.2.2 DQ.2.2 Define a data quality strategy
  • 5.1 5.1 Data Quality Management Function

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