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	Knowledge, Attitudes and Practices Survey	Citizen Report Card
Field	Development Studies	Development Studies
Family	Process / pipeline	Process / pipeline
Year of origin	2008	2002
Originator	Family-planning and public-health survey research (WHO; Médecins du Monde)	Samuel Paul and the Public Affairs Centre, Bangalore, India
Type	Structured behavioural survey	Sample-survey-based public-service feedback method
Seminal source	World Health Organization. (2008). Advocacy, communication and social mobilization for TB control: a guide to developing knowledge, attitude and practice surveys. Geneva: WHO.	Paul, S. (2002). Holding the State to Account: Citizen Monitoring in Action. Bangalore: Books for Change. ISBN: 9788187380474
Aliases	KAP survey, KAP study, Knowledge attitudes practices survey, KABP survey	CRC, Citizen Report Card Survey, Public Service Report Card, User Satisfaction Report Card
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Summary	A Knowledge, Attitudes and Practices (KAP) survey is a structured, representative survey that measures what a target population knows about a topic, how it feels and believes about it, and what it actually does. Widely used in public health, water-sanitation-hygiene (WASH), family planning, and nutrition programming, KAP surveys provide the baseline and endline evidence for behaviour-change communication, identifying the gaps between knowledge and practice that interventions are meant to close.	The Citizen Report Card (CRC) is a social-accountability method that uses a representative sample survey to gather systematic feedback from the users of public services, producing comparative 'report card' ratings of satisfaction, access, reliability, and corruption. Pioneered by Samuel Paul and the Public Affairs Centre in Bangalore, India, in the mid-1990s, it provides an aggregate, quantitative, citywide or regional measure of service quality — distinguishing it from the local, qualitative Community Scorecard — and uses public dissemination and media advocacy to pressure agencies to improve.