Quality Buckets

When setting the quality of a data point, the following options currently exist:

• Audited
• Reported
• Estimated
• Incomplete
• No Data Found

Furthermore, a data point may be left blank alltogether. The meaning of the different quality buckets is summarized in the table below:

Quality Bucket	Meaning
Audited	Data point was found in the supporting document which was reviewed by an auditor
Reported	Data point was found in the supporting document
Incomplete	Data point was found but relevant parts are missing
Estimated	Data point was not found but estimated by the uploader
No Data Found	Data point was searched for but not found
Data Point is null	Data point was not searched for or is not relevant

Uploader decision tree

The decision tree for the data uploader is shown below:

Examples and further comments

Note

This section is currently a work in progress and it's contents will change in the future

To make the meaning of the different quality buckets clearer, the following table contains example datapoins and further details.

Quality Bucket	Dataset	Example Datapoint	Comment
Audited	adidas AG	Total Amount	The value can be found in the provided Annual Report. The consolidated Financial statements have been audited by KPMG, the report is included in the Annual Report.
Reported	COMCAST CORPORATION	Carbon Reduction Initiative	The company itself reports the existence of the initiative, but the report was not audited
Incomplete	(i) CONTINENTAL RESOURCES, INC. (ii) CARNIVAL CORPORATION.	(i) Carbon Reduction Initiative (ii) Supplier Code Of Conduct	For policies: (i) When the topic of a policy is mentioned, but no specific policy is mentioned or provided, we consider this as Incomplete with no value (neither yes nor no) This is also reflected in the comment. (ii) When a policy is mentioned, but the text of the policy itself is currently not available (on Dataland), this is considered as Data Quality Incomplete with value 'yes'. For "collective" datapoints (e.g. EU Taxonomy activities): (iii) some values are provided, others are not.
Estimated	KfW	Non-Renewable Energy Consumption Other	When a value is not explicitly stated but can be derived from provided information (e.g., non-renewable energy consumption = total energy consumption * [1 - renewable energy consumption percentage], currency or unit conversions, etc.). In the example, no energy source is provided for District heating, so it is a reasonable assumption that it is non-renewable.
No Data Found	CARNIVAL CORPORATION.	Human Rights Legal Proceedings	Finding the data was attempted but not successful.