RecordsDAMA: 12

Completeness (Records)

The degree to which all required records in the dataset are present.

Created: 10/30/2025
Business Impact
Positive Impacts
  • •Comprehensive and accurate understanding of business operations, customer populations, and market activities.
  • •More reliable reporting, robust analytics, and trustworthy forecasting based on full datasets.
  • •Reduced risk of missed opportunities, unaddressed customer issues, or hidden operational gaps.
  • •Improved compliance by ensuring all required transactional or entity records are present and accounted for.
Negative Impacts (if poor quality)
  • •Incomplete view of business performance leading to skewed analysis, biased insights, and flawed decisions.
  • •Inaccurate or misleading reports and forecasts due to missing segments of data.
  • •Missed sales opportunities, customer service failures, or unidentified operational inefficiencies.
  • •Non-compliance if required transactional, regulatory, or customer records are missing.
Technical Description

%

Measurement Approach
How to measure this dimension

Percentage or number of the required records that are present.

Examples
Good quality vs poor quality indicators
Good Quality Examples

Logistics: Vessel arrival notification feed contains records for all expected vessel calls based on port schedules.

Healthcare: All diagnostic test results ordered for patients are successfully recorded and linked to the respective patient record within 24 hours.

Sales: Every lead generated from the website inquiry form is successfully created as a new lead record in the sales automation system.

Poor Quality Examples

Logistics: Daily gate transaction log missing records for several hours due to a system outage, skewing throughput reports.

Healthcare: Not all patient encounters or administered medications are being recorded in the EHR system, leading to incomplete medical histories and potential safety risks.

Sales: The CRM is missing contact records for key accounts that were onboarded last quarter due to a data import failure.

Local Network
Quick Stats
Dependent KPIs0
Improvement Standards0
CategoryRecords
API Access
GET /api/dq-dimensions/3f1a9be7-91a8-4e58-9e30-469ac0e58f2d