The phrase "absence of appropriate data" is correct and usable in written English.
It can be used in contexts where you want to indicate that there is a lack of suitable or relevant information available for analysis or decision-making.
Example: "The study's findings were inconclusive due to the absence of appropriate data on participant demographics."
Alternatives: "lack of relevant data" or "insufficient data available".
One of the main reasons why such an evaluation was not performed in the past was the absence of appropriate data sets.
The absence of appropriate data for an analysis of the influence of social factors is a major limitation of this study.
Multimorbidity patterns were difficult to apprise, due to the absence of appropriate data collection systems; this would produce artificial estimates and information far from adhering to reality.
In the studied reports, the sections on evaluation of the economic impacts of healthcare research are often the weakest, perhaps because of the absence of appropriate data.
While an intervention to delay onset would be administered before the onset of mild dementia, costs were calculated on this basis in the absence of appropriate data The current study addresses a gap in the literature that evaluates the cost of dementia [ 3].
In the absence of data, one might have the "luxury" to build on reasonable assumptions and explore the effects, but impact is limited by the lack of appropriate data and metrics to judge quality.
This value, in the absence of more appropriate data, may be applied to the population of Somalia.
We used a generalized rate in the absence of appropriate fossil data, or a well-calibrated molecular phylogeny of stoneflies.
While the biological relevance of this effect cannot be fully assessed in the absence of appropriate experimental data, we could derive a target prediction method with cutoffs that depend on the mature microRNA sequence using the "Vari" filter method.
This was primarily justified by the absence of appropriate quantitative data sets to undertake more orthodox forms of analysis, but also by the innovative contributions that recent studies have shown qualitative information from market actors can offer to this kind of investigation (Ranson et al. 2012; Russo and McPake 2010).
