Data Cleaning and Processing

Data cleaning is the process of improving data files and databases by removing or correcting data that may be incorrect, out of date, incomplete, duplicated, or irrelevant.

Personal data can go out of date very quickly unless it is maintained; to keep your data up to date it should be regularly cleaned, especially before mailing out marketing materials.

Sending communications using inaccurate consumer data can cost you both money and customers; nobody wants to receive a mailing where their personal information is wrong.

Cleaning Processes

Cleaning your data is easy: simply call us on 01535 608405 and speak to one of our data cleaning experts who will be able to recommend which of our data cleaning or data enhancement services you might need.

Suppression
Services

  • Goneaway Processing - NCoA/GAS
  • Deceased Suppression Files - The Bereavement Register/Mortascreen
  • Data Deduplication
  • Deceased Words
  • Data Exlusions
  • Free Healthcheck
  • Customer Suppression Files
  • MPS Suppressions
  • TPS Suppressions
  • Email Validation

Enhancement
Services

  • Duplicate Merging
  • Name Formatting
  • Address Formatting
  • Other Data Formatting
  • Teleappending
  • PAF Correction - Royal Mail Postal Address File

Licence File Glossary

  • Mortascreen

    The leading source of deceased data in the UK. Almost 9 million records are listed at their last known address and the file is updated monthly with on average 60,000 new records accounting for over 90% of all deaths in the UK.

  • TBR (The Bereavement Register)

    Another source of deceased data in the UK which can be used in conjunction with Mortascreen to provide the best possible chance of suppressing the maximum number of deceased individuals.

  • NCOA Suppress

    The National Change of Address (NCOA) is a dataset that is sourced from the Royal Mail’s redirection service that keeps track of customers who move house. There are over 23 million records in the NCOA® Update file, and it is growing by 1.2 million every year.

  • GAS (Goneaway Suppression File)

    Provided by The REaD Group this suppression file contains over 70 million goneaways.

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