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Top Tips
These five tips summarise the main pointers for statistical producers to develop a good understanding of the quality issues of administrative data:
Don’t trust the safeguards
Check if safeguards are functioning effectively
Get involved
Work and share with suppliers, such as through secondments and webinars, to develop a common understanding
Raise a red flag
Identify potential data quality concerns using input and output quality indicators and investigate anomalies
See the big picture
Identify what investigations and audits have been conducted and what they found
Corroborate the evidence
Confirm the levels and the trends shown by the stats derived from the admin data
