5.2.1. Syntactics Category

The syntactic category focused on data structures and formats, i.e., the physical form of data rather than its content. In order to understand the data quality requirements in terms of the syntactic category of the data being used by decision-makers, the Garrett ranking technique was used, and the dimensions were ranked as shown in Table 6. Based on the Garrett mean values, stakeholders ranked dimensions as accuracy, consistency, completeness, structure, integrity, conciseness, and ease of operation. This is because the syntactic category is primarily concerned with the physical form rather than the data content; the decision-makers prioritised accuracy over the ease of operation dimension [35]. It is shown that the priority of data quality requirements changed from stakeholder to stakeholder. Hence, we considered most of the responder's ranking as the topmost ranked and followed for other dimensions, as shown in Table 6.

**Table 6.** Ranking of dimensions within the syntactic category of the semiotic framework.

