10 MAC Pt. 501, R. 6.1
DATA INVENTORY Governmental entities shall submit data in accordance with state
Cite as 10 Miss. Admin. Code Pt. 501, R. 6.1
DATA INVENTORY Governmental entities shall submit data in accordance with state
and federal law. Upon receipt of data, the third-party contractor shall verify the list of data
elements received from data contributors within ten (10) working days of receipt. Upon
verification of the list of fields, tables, and relationships between tables by the data contributor,
the data shall undergo the complete LifeTracks data inventory process. The complete data
inventory process shall include updating or creating data dictionaries and program data mapping
documents. Data dictionaries shall include metadata such as meaning, relationship to other data,
origin, usage, and format. Program data mapping documents shall provide information on how
data fields relate to other data fields across multiple data sets. The program data mapping
document shall be used to compare and contrast data elements collected across multiple
governmental entities and over time.