judicial cases sexual abuse was not considered a rape crime if the perpetrator was a husband; or for instance, until the seventies in Spain women needed a licence to postulate for jobs or have a property. These examples reflect how legal sources could sometimes be restrictive from a human rights perspective and we should use them based on critical judgment to define the variables for our database. Train your team Your team should be trained to understand all the work processes related to data management. Without standardization and common criteria, your data won’t be comparable or useful to measure phenomena, as it will depend on the subjectiveness of the one who collected or recorded it in the system. Everyone in the organization needs to know that the ability to harness data and, thus, to achieve our goals, depends on the homogeneity of the criteria: the definitions of the things we are going to measure and how we are going to measure them. 10