AAAS Center for Science, Technology and Congress

AAAS Policy Brief: Data Quality

Issue Summary | Resources

Policy Groups

• Truth and Science Betrayed: The Case Against the Information Quality Act. A March 2005 report by the Center for Progressive Regulation (CPR).
• Center for Regulatory Effectiveness Data Quality website.
• OMB Watch Data Qaulity Act website.

Articles

• Washington Post piece

Public Comments on OMB's Data Quality Guidelines

• OMB Watch
• U.S. Chamber of Commerce
• Federation of American Societies for Experimental Biology (FASEB)
• Association of American Medical Colleges (AAMC)
• Center for Regulatory Effectiveness

OMB Documents and Background

• Data Quality Act
• OMB's June 28, 2001 Proposed Data Quality Guidelines
• OMB's Sep 28, 2001 "Final" Guidelines
• OMB's Jan 3, 2002 reproducibility standard revision
• OMB corrections to the Data Quality Guidlines from June 13, 2002 and Oct 1, 2002.
• A 2002 Speech by John Graham, Administrator of OMB's Office of Information and Regulatory Affairs

Updated April 11, 2005