Every year, the Dutch Ministry of the Interior and Kingdom Relations (BZK) and the basic registries publish an overview of data quality. The results were recently published in the report: ‘Quality information of the System of Base Registries 2023’. It provides insight into the quality achieved per basic registry and the standards used for each.
The System of Base Registries is of great importance for government services. It contains essential data such as addresses, people, businesses, and geo-information that are used compulsorily in many government processes. For example, when granting benefits or licences. This makes it imperative that this data is of high quality. For many years, data quality has been maintained at a high level within the system. The new report provides detailed insight into the current data quality. And shows how it continues to develop.
Further development towards a Federative Data System
Over the next few years, the System of Base Registries will be further developed into a Federative Data System. For this further development, various projects are ongoing in the field of quality. Working groups are working on standardising the description of data and service quality. New data quality agreements are also being jointly drawn up. Furthermore, in Statistics Netherlands’ (CBS) annual measurements of links between registries, additional checks are performed, and consistency with new registries is assessed.
