Doppler Opinion Research released its first national survey on 19 August 2026 at the BIDA Multipurpose Hall in Agargaon, Dhaka, presenting findings on how the public rates the government at 180 days. Doppler Research Bangladesh Ltd is created out of Innovision Consulting's work on the People's Election Pulse Survey (PEPS) between 2024 and 2026, and builds on the resources and assets developed through designing, deploying and disseminating that series.
The Approval Rating Survey 2026 returns a picture of cautious optimism. Two-thirds of adults, 66.3%, say the Prime Minister is doing his job well against 21.6% who say badly, and the rating holds remarkably steady across the country. It sits between 61.7% and 70.3% in every age, sex, schooling and income group, and above 62.3% in all eight divisions. It also crosses party lines, with 65.5% of Bangladesh Jamaat-e-Islami supporters, 65.8% of Jatiya Nagorik Party supporters and 52.5% of Awami League supporters rating him well.
Approval falls as the question moves outward from the Prime Minister. His government is rated well by 54.5% and badly by 32.9%. On the country's direction the public divides, with 48.6% saying the right way, 35.6% the wrong way, and 15.8% declining to answer, the largest such share on any question about the national mood. The same order holds within every party group surveyed: the Prime Minister above the government, and the government above the direction of the country.
What people want fixed is unambiguous. Asked to name the biggest problems facing the country with no list read out, 59.5% named electricity and fuel and 59.1% named the price of essentials, far ahead of law and order at 32.6% and employment at 30.8%. Those are also the areas where the government is judged most harshly, with 89.4% saying electricity is handled badly and 69.1% saying the same of the price of essentials. Of seven policy areas tested, only education draws a favourable verdict, at 70.6%.
Household finances tell a story of hardship endured and improvement expected. 46.5% say their family is worse off than a year ago against 17.5% who say better off, while 38.1% expect to be better off twelve months from now. Doppler cautions that no finding in the survey is evidence of an improvement that has already occurred; what it records is what people say they expect. The survey also finds majority support for the Family Card at 78.6%, the tax policy at 70.7% and implementing the referendum result at 70.0%, and reports that 64.3% of women feel safe walking alone after dark against 70.9% of men, while 82.0% of Hindu respondents feel safe practising their religion openly against 97.1% of Muslim respondents.
The findings were presented by Yasin Shafi, Director of Research at Doppler and a PhD student in the Department of Political Science at Pennsylvania State University. Doppler is led by Md. Rubaiyath Sarwar as Founder and Chief Executive, who is also Managing Director at Innovision Consulting.
The discussion that followed brought together Ashik Chowdhury, Executive Chairman of BIDA and BEZA; Asif Shahan, Professor of Development Studies at the University of Dhaka; Faridul Haque, Joint Secretary-General of the NCP; A. K. M. Fahim Mashroor, Chief Executive Officer of bdjobs.com; and Rubaiyath Sarwar.
Professor Asif Shahan read the numbers as a warning about political capital. He noted that the government's honeymoon period is almost over, and that the Prime Minister's high approval, while a relief for the government, also indicates that his performance is not being matched by cabinet members. Concerns over extortion and declining law and order, he argued, are raising broader questions about governance that the government needs to address effectively.
The survey was conducted by telephone among the panel of 10,413 adults first interviewed face to face for PEPS in September 2025. 3,443 completed the interview, a response rate of 33.1%, representing 489 wards and villages across all 64 districts, with results weighted to the 2022 census. The margin of error is approximately 2.6 percentage points on a national figure. No question named a party or a minister; respondents were asked about "the government elected in February". The survey was funded and supported by Innovision Consulting, and designed and released independently of any party, ministry or campaign affiliation. Doppler publishes the questionnaire, sample, weighting and funding in full with every release, and answers methodology questions from anyone.
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