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Where a data quality specialist can go next

5 destinations recorded, ranked by how much of the target role a data quality specialist already meets. The closer to the top of Table 1, the less there is to learn.

Data quality specialists review organisation's data for accuracy, recommend enhancements to record systems and data acquisition processes and assess referential and historical integrity of data. They also develop documents and maintain data quality goals and standards and oversee an organisation's data privacy policy and monitor compliance of data flows against data quality standards.

Highest coverage recorded: 46%
Destinations: 5each with a full record
Within reach: 1difficulty under 55
Skills on file: 40required or supplementary

Table 1

Table 1 · Within reach

data entry clerk 46% covered · difficulty 53

Table 2

Table 2 · A bigger jump

Possible, but expect real retraining rather than a sideways step.

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data quality specialist is filed under Professionals, ISCO major group 2. The full index lists all ten groups.

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How these figures were compiled

Coverage is the share of the target role’s weighted skill requirement a data quality specialist already meets, counting required skills in full and supplementary ones at 0.35. It is directional: the figure for the reverse move differs. Every entry above opens the full comparison for that move: what carries over, what is missing, and where to start. The full method.