Abstract
Government department restructuring have a huge impact on budget allocation especially when the mandate of such a department changes. Various budget lines are affected, human resource component get affected as well as capital resources to execute departmental mandate also get affect. The longest stable period for the North West departmental names and mandate is four years while other government component has changed more than six times. Evidently, these changes have had a huge impact on data generation, quality, sustainability and publication. Hence it remains a challenge in the North West province to get access to government time series data on different variables, especially finances. Keywords : Data Quality, Data Generation, Consistency, Government DOI : 10.7176/IKM/9-1-01
Highlights
In 1994 South Africa witnessed the new era of democracy which needed new Constitution, political leadership and a complete reform in its administration institutions
Government department restructuring have a huge impact on budget allocation especially when the mandate of such a department changes
The longest stable period for the North West departmental names and mandate is four years while other government component has changed more than six times
Summary
In 1994 South Africa witnessed the new era of democracy which needed new Constitution, political leadership and a complete reform in its administration institutions. Establishing the roles and responsibilities of all parties involved is key to successful data management and sharing, (Van den Eynden, etal, 2011) It is on these bases that this study seeks to establish the effect institutional stability can have on the ability of the generation and quality of data which will enable researchers and academics to provide quality evidence for policy architect, planning and effective and efficient resource allocation. Data found had to be mined first from the South African National Treasury because for three weeks the North West Provincial Treasury could not provide data as per the request of the author This clearly is an indication of a challenge faced by government on data generation, quality control, management and availability for use by researchers and policy-makers.
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