Chapter 6 Q1: List, describe, and provide an example of each of the five characteristics of high quality information.

High quality information is crutial to the decision making process of any organization. The characteristics of value information include:

Accuracy: preventing data entry errors with strictly entering accurate data.

Completeness: if data is incomplete then it's useless since it wouldn't represent an accurate whole image of reality.

Consistency: crutial part of the database approach as same data will be shared through the different departments.

Uniqueness: data has to be unique and pass the data integrity test.

Timeliness: data has to be updated to consistently be reliable.