Translation Bureau Terminology Quality Assurance Records

This dataset tracks the annual quality compliance of terminology records in the TERMIUM Plus® database. An internal review audits a random sample of approximately 500 records created or modified in the preceding fiscal year. The service quality objective requires at least 95% of sampled records to contain no more than two errors.

Use Cases

• Analyze the annual compliance rate against the 95% service quality objective for sampled records.
• Track trends in error counts per sampled terminology record over multiple fiscal years.
• Correlate quality performance with specific terminology record attributes like subject fields or source citations.

Strengths

• Annual quality assurance process based on a defined random sample of approximately 500 records.
• Clear, established quality standards with eight specific criteria for terminology records.
• Data is used to evaluate a formal departmental performance indicator for linguistic services.

Limitations

• Data scope is limited to a sample of approximately 500 records annually, not the full database.
• The specific columns and raw data points (e.g., individual error types) are not described.
• Data is explicitly combined with another dataset for the final departmental indicator calculation.

Provenance

Source

Public Services and Procurement Canada, Translation Bureau.

Collection Method

Internal quality assurance process reviewing a random sample of terminology records from the TERMIUM Plus® database.

Time Range

Annual data, covering records created or modified in the preceding fiscal year.

Freshness

Updated annually, with the next update scheduled for March 2026.

Geography

Canada.