A special focus of the EPDC is its sub-national data by region and pupil background- wealth quintile, education of mother, ethnic group, urban or rural residence. This data, from nearly 500 sources, is housed in one easy-to-use database. EPDC's sub-national data illustrates the often large education inequality within countries and pinpoints which sub-groups of children are most disadvantaged. The Search Data section allows the user to filter EPDC's data to their own focus.

EPDC used a Google Challenge Grant to produce an interface to visualize subnational education data in Google Earth. The maps are available in Dynamic Maps . They can be used in combination with other Google Earth tools. EPDC also produces maps with sub-national detail for saving to your own documents, located in Search Maps.

EPDC produces many publicly available projection tools to support education planning decisions and guide effective resource allocation. Projections for over 100 countries are available at Search Projections. The High-level Interactive Projections for Education (HIPE) model is the most visual of the EPDC projection models and the most utilized.

EPDC has contributed to the Education For All Global Monitoring Reports since 2006. For the 2010 report, the EPDC calculated of finance gaps for EFA in 48 developing countries to 2025 with the HIPE-GMR model. The projections include pre-primary, primary, and lower secondary,literacy training and separate consideration of marginalized children. Read the new 2010 EFA Global Monitoring Report.

EPDC offers a range of client services focused on utilizing data for evidence-based decision-making. Our services include commissioned studies, customized data visualization and projection tools, workshops, and other capacity building activities. In 2009, EPDC was commission to work with the Ministry of Education (MoE) of Zambia to produce district level education profiles for the whole country to support local decision-making and planning.