The importance of accurate data

• Once your data is entered, take time to review it carefully and check for inconsistencies or anomalies.
• High quality, reliable information not only strengthens your customers’ confidence in your reporting but also helps your organization track performance and progress towards its targets.

In-platform checks to ensure data quality

🤖Secaro has automated data quality checks in place to alert you when enter data that is outside typical ranges.

These are in place for the following data: 

• Energy, emissions, water and waste metrics; 
• Energy, emissions water and waste savings related to reduction plans; and
• Supplier output per customer (part of the Scope 3 estimator calculation)

For unusually high or low values, a warning message appears to indicate that the data is unexpected.

💡You will similarly receive a warning message when a data point varies by more than 20% from one year to the next. 

• If this happens, check that you have not made an error in your workings or when entering the data. 
• We have a no-go threshold for extremely high values. If your data exceeds the threshold, an automated notification will appear, and you will need to raise a support ticket to progress your submission.

How to identify anomalies in your reports

Anomalous data does not mean it is incorrect, but that it should be checked to confirm that no errors have been made. 

Methods to identify anomalies include:

• Significant deviations from a trend, where there is no obvious reason why this would be the case:

  This includes normalized trends, which means comparing the data with production output, or energy use, to make allowance for expected changes.

• Estimated Scope 3 emissions would not usually contribute more than 99% of your total Scope 1, 2 & 3 combined. Similarly, the Scope 3 proportion would not usually be less than your combined Scope 1 & 2 emissions.
• Non-energy related emissions (process emissions from chemical processes or refrigerants & fugitive emissions) would not usually amount to more than 25% of your total Scope 1 & 2.