Evaluation of the CPSC’s Implementation of the Federal Data Strategy

Date Issued

Friday, April 16, 2021

Submitting OIG

Consumer Product Safety Commission OIG

Other Participating OIGs

Consumer Product Safety Commission OIG

Agencies Reviewed/Investigated

Consumer Product Safety Commission

Report Number

21-A-05

Report Type

Inspection / Evaluation

Agency Wide

Yes

Number of Recommendations

Questioned Costs

Funds for Better Use

Open Recommendations

This report has 4 open recommendations.

Recommendation Number	Significant Recommendation	Recommended Questioned Costs	Recommended Funds for Better Use
1	No	$0	$0
Establish a data strategy implementation project plan with milestones that consider mission priorities and current and expected staffing levels to track the progress of the data management program maturation against the current Data and Analytics Strategy Implementation Plan.
2	No	$0	$0
Develop and implement a Data Quality Plan that supports the collection and maintenance of data related to identified key CPSC open data sets.
3	No	$0	$0
Identify and assign responsibilities to all of the resources who have data governance roles and responsibilities. These resources should include, at a minimum, data owners and data stewards, and those resources should be trained on their responsibilities.
4	No	$0	$0
Dedicate resources to the data management program based on a needs assessment, which should be revisited as the FDS action plans are published. Supplementary resources to consider adding may include data architects, data scientists, data analysts, and training resources.