The statistic depicts the causes of poor data quality for enterprises in North America, according to a survey of North American IT executives conducted by 451 Research in 2015. As of 2015, 47 percent of respondents indicated that poor data quality at their company was attributable to data migration or conversion projects.
What are the main causes for poor data quality?*
Characteristic
Share of respondents
Data entry by employees
57.5%
Data migration or conversion projects
47%
Mixed entries by multiple users
44%
Changes to source systems
43.5%
Systems errors
43%
Data entry by customers
38%
External data
37.5%
We don't have data quality problems
3%
0%5%10%15%20%25%30%35%40%45%50%55%60%65%
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IT executives from companies with 500 or more employees
Supplementary notes
* The source does not provide information on the original wording used during the survey. Thus, the wording chosen for this statistic may differ slightly from the one in the survey. Multiple responses were possible.
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