DATA was founded in 1994 as a research consulting firm to applying its technical expertise in support of finding solutions to pressing social and economic challenges in Bangladesh. Its uniqueness as an organization stems from the honest devotion, efficiency, and high quality work of its staff and the prioritization of client satisfaction over profit. DATA was formed by a select group of talents of different discipline and were formerly employed by organizations like International Food Policy Research Institute (IFPRI), Save the Children.

These three senior directors have now accumulated over 60 years of collective experience and contributed successfully to much of the critical education system and policies, food security, agriculture, nutrition and poverty alleviation policy research conducted in Bangladesh. Very few organizations in Bangladesh have devoted themselves to the collection and management of quality data for understanding the underlying socioeconomic issues in the country. People at DATA are committed to such an effort using state-of-the-art survey methodologies and employing highly technical data management systems. This has been the key for DATA’s success over the three decades helping to produce many excellent research outputs that dealt with critical issues relating to education policies, health and educational achievements of the people in the country, food-security and agricultural policies, and under nutrition and poverty alleviation programs.

Over the years, DATA has carried out numerous cross section as well as panel surveys in Bangladesh, including detailed household and institutional surveys, administered tests, randomized control treatments, anthropometry surveys, waste and blood sample collection, community surveys, village level household census, detailed household surveys. Almost all of DATA’s surveys have an impact in policy level research.