---
title: "Run data quality assessment"
slug: "run-data-quality-assessment"
description: "Run a data quality assessment to ensure your data meets standards after changes or imports. Check quality levels periodically with ease."
tags: ["Task", "Data Quality Studio", "DQS"]
updated: 2026-03-20T11:30:30Z
published: 2026-03-20T17:44:40Z
canonical: "docs.staedean.com/run-data-quality-assessment"
---

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# Run data quality assessment

You can run a data quality assessment to examine the quality of existing data. To run a data quality assessment, you use data quality assessment projects.

You can do a data quality assessment, for example, if you:

- Have implemented a change in the Data Quality Studio configuration and want to make sure existing data is in line with this change.
- Have imported data without applying data quality policies.
- Want to periodically check the quality level of your data.

### Steps

1. Go to **Data quality studio** > **Periodic tasks** > **Run quality assessment**.
2. You can run one or several data quality assessment projects at once.

In the **Project name** field, select the desired data quality assessment projects.
3. You can run the selected data quality assessment projects in:

In the **Company** field, select the desired companies, if desired.
  - **All companies**. To do so, do not define a company.
  - **Specific companies**. To do so, select the desired companies.
4. A data quality assessment project can run a validation rule of type **Web service** that uses a paid web service.

From a cost perspective, you can indicate if you want to apply validation rules that use paid web services.

Select **Yes** in the **Run paid web services** field.
5. Sub-task: Run quality assessment in a recurring pattern.
  1. A data quality assessment project is always run in the background. You can run a data quality assessment in a recurring pattern.

Expand the **Run in the background** section and fill in the fields as desired.
  2. Define the recurring pattern for the data quality assessment.

Click **Recurrence** and fill in the fields as desired.
  3. Click **OK**.
6. Click **OK**.

> [!NOTE]
> Notes
> 
> When you run a data quality assessment project, the applicable data quality policy rules are only applied :
> 
> - If the '**Quality assessment**' execution trigger is enabled for the data quality policy.
> - For active data quality policy versions.
> - To the applicable data.

## Related

- [Data entry workflow integration](/data-entry-workflow-integration.md)