The Link Between the Data Producers’ Knowing-Why and their Intention to Enter Data Correctly

摘要

In the literature, it is posited that increasing the “why knowledge” of data producers will increase the intention of these data producers to enter correct data. Yet, empirical evidence of this assumption is lacking. In response, this paper empirically investigates the link between the data producers' intention to enter data correctly and the level of knowledge of “why this data is collected”. The results show that knowledge on why the data is collected is not sufficient to increase the intention of data producers to enter data without errors. To actually increase the data producers' intention to enter high quality data, they need to know about the importance of collecting the data correctly. This theoretical clarification is an important step towards building a theory for improving the quality of manually acquired data.