In addition to the nationally representative DHS EdData household education surveys, DHS EdData also conducts other data collection activities, including smaller-scale surveys similar to the DHS EdData household education survey, and qualitative studies. For instance, in Ghana in 2002, DHS EdData conducted two qualitative studies designed to inform the USAID/Ghana country strategic plan and to address issues critical to education in Ghana.

One of these studies, the Ghana Enhancing Education Decentralization and Managing Grants Study examines how, in three districts in Ghana, responsibilities for education management have been decentralized to districts from the central level, how resources have been decentralized and delivered, and how districts have managed school operations under decentralization. The study also examines these three districts' experience with the new USAID district grants mechanism.

The other study, the Ghana Household Demand for Schooling Study, examines, in three districts of Ghana, the factors that enter into the process of parents or guardians deciding whether to send school-age children to primary school. Families may send children to school, keep them home to work, send them to other households to work and/or attend school, allow them to spend time as they choose, or some combination of the above.