*3.3. Quality Data*

The AIHW collects, hosts, analyzes, and disseminates data that support the understanding of important health and welfare issues, and that are critical to good policymaking and effective service delivery.

The AIHW Quality Management Framework (QMF) is used to manage risk and maintain quality. The QMF draws on aspects of separate enterprise architecture, quality gate, data validation, and project managemen<sup>t</sup> models developed by other national and international organizations. Application of the QMF across all stages of data integration and analysis projects maximizes the potential to deliver outputs that support and inform policy development and decision making.

The five key elements of the QMF are as follows:


consistent QA strategies. It uses a set of generic gates to improve the early detection of errors or flaws in production processes. It also defines the roles and responsibilities for managing quality and performance measures to facilitate quality gate assessments.

