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The Problem: Data quality
is at an all-time low.

Client-side researchers:

76%

had serious doubts about quality at least once in the past 6 months

(GRIT report, 2024).

75%

had to address doubts about quality with their internal clients at least once in the past 6 months (GRIT report, 2024).

Research agencies:

65%

had serious doubts about quality at least once in the past 6 months

(GRIT report, 2024).

67%

had to address doubts about quality with their clients at least once in

the past 6 months

(GRIT report, 2024).

You're paying a high price for poor-quality data. You might just not realize how much.

Poor quality-data leads to poor business outcomes

Poor business outcomes

27% of client-side researchers say they’ve linked a poor business decision to poor-quality data at least once in the past six months (GRIT, 2024).

Poor quality-data leads to poor financial setbacks

Financial

setbacks

Beyond the obvious costs of wasted resources and delays, poor-quality data also leads to rework, client refunds, heightened scrutiny in the future, etc.

Poor quality-data leads to wasted resources

Wasted

resources

Repeated data cleaning, returning to fieldwork, reconciliation of rejected completes with sample providers, constantly second-guessing data during analysis, etc.

Poor quality-data leads to reputational damage

Reputational

damage

Loss of credibility, difficulty retaining clients, missed upsell opportunities, negative word-of-mouth, etc.

Poor quality-data leads to delays

Delays

Having to collect extra respondents to compensate for expected removals, returning to fieldwork, performing additional rounds of data cleaning after data collection, etc.

Poor quality-data leads to erosion of employee morale

Erosion of

employee morale

Frustration over wasted resources, stress and anxiety from delays, paranoia during analysis, loss of purpose when working with data you don’t trust, etc.

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True North Market Research is a research agency whose mission is to help research buyers regain confidence in their insights.
True North Market Research is a research agency whose mission is to help research buyers regain confidence in their insights.
True North Market Research is a research agency whose mission is to help research buyers regain confidence in their insights.
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