The phrase "a lag in data" is correct and usable in written English.
It can be used to describe a delay or slowdown in the processing or availability of data.
Example: "Due to a lag in data, our analysis will be delayed until we receive the updated information."
Alternatives: "a delay in data" or "a slowdown in data".
A lag in data collection means that complete national statistics are not yet available, but snapshot figures from 18 food banks around the country show that all have seen demand rise during the summer break.
Existing regulations, too, are contributing to a lag in data interoperability.
Note that, although the readers are reading continuously, there may be a lag in data storage if multiple readers are reading simultaneously, but the time of the lag is negligible.
Furthermore, manual entry on the part of schools' attendance offices may lead to a lag in data submission time, and data may contain typographical errors.
Rebecca Adeskavitz, a researcher at the Brady Center who conducted the analysis, told VICE News that despite a lag in the data, the numbers are grim.
However, the off-line, daily or weekly data reporting mode induces a time lag in data collection, transmission, processing, and responses.
No HES-linked data were available for patients diagnosed in 2009 2010 as, due to national problems in calculating the co-morbidity score, there was a time lag in data availability.
HES-linked comorbidity data were not available for patients diagnosed in 2009 2010 as, because of national problems in calculating the comorbidity score, there was a time lag in data availability.
| A lag in fund-raising data makes the state of private equity seem worse than it is, as the number of deals is actually growing, The Financial Times writes.
This discrepancy could be because the information required for the calculation had not been registered in the RIPS system at the time of data collection because of a lag time in data entry.
In accordance with, but not as proof of, the latter possibility, a mutant F1 lacking noncatalytic sites did not show a lag in activity at 15°C (data not shown).
