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Knowledge, Attitudes and Practices Survey×Food Security Measurement×
FieldDevelopment StudiesDevelopment Studies
FamilyProcess / pipelineProcess / pipeline
Year of origin20082013
OriginatorFamily-planning and public-health survey research (WHO; Médecins du Monde)FAO (FIES); FANTA (HFIAS); World Food Programme (FCS)
TypeStructured behavioural surveyExperiential and dietary food-security survey
Seminal sourceWorld Health Organization. (2008). Advocacy, communication and social mobilization for TB control: a guide to developing knowledge, attitude and practice surveys. Geneva: WHO. link ↗Ballard, T. J., Kepple, A. W., & Cafiero, C. (2013). The Food Insecurity Experience Scale: Development of a Global Standard for Monitoring Hunger Worldwide. Rome: Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations (FAO). link ↗
AliasesKAP survey, KAP study, Knowledge attitudes practices survey, KABP surveyFood insecurity measurement, FIES, HFIAS, Food Consumption Score
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SummaryA 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.Food security measurement comprises a family of survey-based instruments that capture households' or individuals' access to adequate food, distinct from the U.S. USDA Household Food Security Survey Module. The dominant tools — the FAO Food Insecurity Experience Scale (FIES), the Household Food Insecurity Access Scale (HFIAS), the World Food Programme's Food Consumption Score (FCS), and dietary-diversity scores such as the Household Dietary Diversity Score (HDDS) — measure either the lived experience of food insecurity or the quantity and quality of the diet, providing the indicators used for global hunger monitoring and humanitarian targeting.
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