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ABSTRACT Objective: To analyze the quality of data collected during prenatal care recorded in the Integrated Health Care Management System (SIGA) of the Municipal Department of Health of São Paulo from 2012 to 2020. Methods: Descriptive study using SIGA data and the variables: maternal height (cm), weight (kg) measured throughout pregnancy, gestational age at prenatal consultation, systolic (SBP) and diastolic (DBP) blood pressure (in mmHg), and body mass index (BMI) at the beginning of pregnancy (up to 8 weeks). Quality analysis was carried out by calculating the indicators: percentage of incompleteness and zero values of all variables studied, percentage of implausible values for height, weight, BMI; preference for terminal digit of weight and height, and normality of distributions. Results: The database of pregnant women made available for analysis included 8,046,608 records and 1,174,115 women. The percentage of incompleteness and zero values was low ( |