Surveys have been carried out at various times whenever there are some residents who feel especially strongly about baboon coexistence and the challenges.  You can see these surveys, including this report, on the Baboon Surveys page
This page summarises only the 2021 Survey that was carried out specifically to inform the Babco - Rooiels Baboon Indaba held in November 2021.
The report below provides the results of all those questions that can be measured -- the quantitative (check-box) data analysis with some graphs to illustrate these. There are many different metrics that can be used and some additional graphics were given in the Presentation made to the Indaba. You can download the files here -- or read them all on-line below
rooiels_baboon_survey_final_as_distributed.pdf
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nov_baboon_coexistence_quantified_results_only.pdf
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indaba_presentation_baboon_coexistence_survey.pptx
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On the written questions - the qualitative questions, there were also many hundreds of comments given (93 pages of them around 2500 responses) and they have been studied by the Babco team.  It is not possible to provide a comprehensive overview of all these comments but a short Compilation of some key responses is available to inform the way forward for coexistence with baboons in Rooiels.
The responses to the quantified (check box) components of the survey were analysed using Microsoft Forms which automatically produced the final graphs and charts and provided Excel spreadsheets of the complete results.  These are in the Survey report.  Some additional charts were generated from the data.  There was some controversy regarding the outcome of the interpretation of the qualitative (written) responses to the survey. It is not possible to interpret some 2500 responses to questions that were informal and aimed at identifying key discussion topics for the Indaba. Those questions were a compilation of all the questions every member of the BABCO task team wanted to see asked. Furthermore the survey had no requirement to answer all the questions and it would not be possible to carry out a scientific analysis of those written perception responses. The survey was never intended to meet the stringent requirements of a scientific survey and so further in-depth analysis of the qualitative (written) responses would not be appropriate. In addition, participants were assured that their confidentiality would be maintained. For these reasons the baboon task team agreed that the raw data should be treated as confidential. 
The quantitative (checkbox)results were analysed as outlined in the report below and in the Indaba Presentation Powerpoint.
The power-point presentation below was presented at the Indaba to inform the outcome of the Baboon Indaba