Data quality is context dependent

“The information that can be extracted from data depends on the quality of the data. Poor-quality data will therefore almost always lead to poor results (‘garbage in, garbage out’).

[Information] is context dependent, and as a result data quality will typically depend on the intended use of the data: data that are of good quality for certain applications can thus be of poor quality for other applications (Lohr, 2014).”

Source: OECD (2015), Data-Driven Innovation: Big Data for Growth and Well-Being, OECD Publishing, Paris.