Your DITA Quotient estimates the value of DITA for your organization.

Simply answer ten yes/no questions about content management, structure, reuse, single-sourcing, localization, markup, conditional processing, modularity, task-orientation, minimalism, and standards.

Get a printable profile of your D.Q., which you can use as a checklist of questions about your structured content strategy and to compare yourself to industry averages.

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DITA Quotient Averages as of April 2008.
With 100 responses, the average D.Q. is 62.

Question	Average Score	Significance	Points
Content management	5.1	Half are using content management	Yes:10 No:0
Content structure	3.5	Almost half are unstructured content	Info and Doc:10 Information:5 Document:5 Unstructured:0
Content reuse	9.5	Almost all have significant reuse	A lot:10 Some:7 A little:3 None:0
Single sourcing	8.7	Most are single sourcing	Yes:10 No:0
Translation	6.4	Two-thirds are localizing content	Yes:10 No:0
Metadata markup	4.4	One-third semantic, nearly half style markup only	Semantic:10 Structure:5 Style:0
Modularity	5.8	Content is modular for more than half	Yes:10 No:0
Conditional processing	5.0	Half publish content conditionally	Yes:10 No:0
Task orientation and Minimalism	4.5	One third task-oriented and minimalist, one third neither	Both:10 Task-oriented:5 Minimalism:5 Neither:0
Standards	9.0	Only ten percent think standards are unimportant	Yes:10 No:0

For more interpretation of the different questions see the Business Case for DITA and the Business Case pages on the wiki at DITA.XML.org, where you may post community comments on each of the ten questions.