Timeliness

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Concept ID: TIMELINESS
URI: https://purl.semanticip.org/linked-data/sdmxsrlocalization/concept/TIMELINESS TTL
International name: Timeliness
Alternative name
Definition: Length of time between data availability and the event or phenomenon they describe.
Comment: Timeliness refers to the speed of data availability, whether for dissemination or for further processing, and it is measured with respect to the time lag between the end of the reference period and the release of data. Timeliness is a crucial element of data quality: adequate timeliness corresponds to a situation where policy-makers can take informed decisions in time for achieving the targeted results. In quality assessment, timeliness is often associated with punctuality, which refers to the time lag between the release date of data and the target date announced in some official release calendar.
Broader: Reference period, Quality management - quality assessment, Punctuality, Release policy - release calendar
Interchangeable (skos:exactMatch): http://purl.org/linked-data/sdmx/2009/concept#timeliness
Notation: urn:sdmx:org.sdmx.infomodel.conceptscheme.Concept=SDMX:CROSS_DOMAIN_CONCEPTS(2.0).TIMELINESS
Source: SDMX, "Metadata Common Vocabulary", 2009
Type: Cross-domain concept
Recommended representation: String
Codelist ID
Other link(s): SDMX, "Standardising Reference Metadata Reporting in SDMX", Version 1.0
Related: Time lag, Timeliness - source data

Used in the following terms: Quality management - quality documentation, Reference metadata, Timeliness - source data
Backlinks: SDMX 3.1 Standards. Section 1. Framework, SDMX 3.1 Standards. Section 5. Registry Specification: Logical Interfaces