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Overall Progress this Milestone
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Identified 5 data improvements for this quarter
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Primary Uses
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The mission of the Department of Veterans Affairs (VA) is to serve America’s Veterans and their families with dignity and compassion, and to be their principal advocate in ensuring that they receive medical care, benefits, social support, and lasting memorials promoting the health, welfare, and dignity of all Veterans in recognition of their service to this Nation. The primary uses of agency data support the Department’s mission to serve Veterans and their families: Planning, analysis, and decision-making activities through the collection, validation, analysis, and dissemination of key statistics on Veteran population and VA programs. Strategy development to integrate the organization's common customer data (identity; military service history; contact information; socioeconomic/demographic; utilization history) to effectively deliver high quality service. Employment data to help identify military skills that Veterans can leverage in the civilian job market. Efforts to empower Veterans to be entrepreneurs, helping them start a business, grow a business, or explore a new career. Determination of what veterans’ health and other needs are, what government is doing to address those needs, and identification of opportunities (using data on: Demographics and geography; Health and economic conditions; Utilization of government services and benefits) Research initiatives which provide data that policymakers, service providers, institutions of higher learning, and the general public can act on to support student Veterans, including the rate at which student veterans complete college compared with traditional students; how long it takes them to complete higher education; the highest degree attained; and their degree fields. |
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Value or impact of data
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Primary data discovery channels
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The mission of the Department of Veterans Affairs (VA) is to serve America’s Veterans and their families with dignity and compassion, and to be their principal advocate in ensuring that they receive medical care, benefits, social support, and lasting memorials promoting the health, welfare, and dignity of all Veterans in recognition of their service to this Nation. The primary uses of agency data support the Department’s mission to serve Veterans and their families: Planning, analysis, and decision-making activities through the collection, validation, analysis, and dissemination of key statistics on Veteran population and VA programs. Strategy development to integrate the organization's common customer data (identity; military service history; contact information; socioeconomic/demographic; utilization history) to effectively deliver high quality service. Employment data to help identify military skills that Veterans can leverage in the civilian job market. Efforts to empower Veterans to be entrepreneurs, helping them start a business, grow a business, or explore a new career. Determination of what veterans’ health and other needs are, what government is doing to address those needs, and identification of opportunities (using data on: Demographics and geography; Health and economic conditions; Utilization of government services and benefits) Research initiatives which provide data that policymakers, service providers, institutions of higher learning, and the general public can act on to support student Veterans, including the rate at which student veterans complete college compared with traditional students; how long it takes them to complete higher education; the highest degree attained; and their degree fields. |
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User suggestions on improving data usability
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The mission of the Department of Veterans Affairs (VA) is to serve America’s Veterans and their families with dignity and compassion, and to be their principal advocate in ensuring that they receive medical care, benefits, social support, and lasting memorials promoting the health, welfare, and dignity of all Veterans in recognition of their service to this Nation. The primary uses of agency data support the Department’s mission to serve Veterans and their families: Planning, analysis, and decision-making activities through the collection, validation, analysis, and dissemination of key statistics on Veteran population and VA programs. Strategy development to integrate the organization's common customer data (identity; military service history; contact information; socioeconomic/demographic; utilization history) to effectively deliver high quality service. Employment data to help identify military skills that Veterans can leverage in the civilian job market. Efforts to empower Veterans to be entrepreneurs, helping them start a business, grow a business, or explore a new career. Determination of what veterans’ health and other needs are, what government is doing to address those needs, and identification of opportunities (using data on: Demographics and geography; Health and economic conditions; Utilization of government services and benefits) Research initiatives which provide data that policymakers, service providers, institutions of higher learning, and the general public can act on to support student Veterans, including the rate at which student veterans complete college compared with traditional students; how long it takes them to complete higher education; the highest degree attained; and their degree fields. |
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User suggestions on additional data releases
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The mission of the Department of Veterans Affairs (VA) is to serve America’s Veterans and their families with dignity and compassion, and to be their principal advocate in ensuring that they receive medical care, benefits, social support, and lasting memorials promoting the health, welfare, and dignity of all Veterans in recognition of their service to this Nation. The primary uses of agency data support the Department’s mission to serve Veterans and their families: Planning, analysis, and decision-making activities through the collection, validation, analysis, and dissemination of key statistics on Veteran population and VA programs. Strategy development to integrate the organization's common customer data (identity; military service history; contact information; socioeconomic/demographic; utilization history) to effectively deliver high quality service. Employment data to help identify military skills that Veterans can leverage in the civilian job market. Efforts to empower Veterans to be entrepreneurs, helping them start a business, grow a business, or explore a new career. Determination of what veterans’ health and other needs are, what government is doing to address those needs, and identification of opportunities (using data on: Demographics and geography; Health and economic conditions; Utilization of government services and benefits) Research initiatives which provide data that policymakers, service providers, institutions of higher learning, and the general public can act on to support student Veterans, including the rate at which student veterans complete college compared with traditional students; how long it takes them to complete higher education; the highest degree attained; and their degree fields. |
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Digital Analytics Program on /data
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