Analysis and Substantiation of Source Data Quality Issues in Data Warehouse of Educational Institutions

Data quality has been discussed at length in literature since last two decades. Many researchers have highlighted the data quality from various points of views. Some of them have discussed data quality from view point of defining the and some have highlighted the data quality in terms of issues and problems of the data present in the organizations. . Typically in an organization there may be as many applications and methods of data storage as many number of departments are existing in that organization and is existing in different formats. And hence data is becoming less useful or in harsh words it is becoming “dirty�. The purpose of this research paper is to verify the data quality issues present in the data sources of educational institutions. An in house developed web based data entry system of campus management system was examined to view the pattern of data quality issues.