Selected survey data for the outcome assessment of a human–carnivore conflict mitigation project (ELC) in Europe

The data presented here have been collected in the context of the EU LIFE EuroLargeCarnivores Outreach Project (LIFE16 GIE/DE/000661). The data set provided is part of a much larger set of data assembled during two different online stakeholder surveys conducted in late 2018/early 2019 (Baseline) and 2021 (Outcome Survey, last year of the project) in 14 countries participating in the project. The data selected are the basis for the analysis and results presented and discussed in the Research Article “Did we achieve what we aimed for? Assessing the outcomes of a human-carnivore conflict mitigation and coexistence project in Europe” by Carol Grossmann and Laszló Pátkó, published in Wildlife Biology in 2024. The dataset is provided as an excel sheet displaying anonymized numerical respondent IDs (rows), and coded answers to selected questions (columns) of these two surveys. The table includes full explanatory wording for all codes used. The data set provided contains n=1262 individual data-subsets from the Baseline Survey and n=1056 individual data subsets from the Outcome Survey in 2021. Part of the questions are identical in both survey sets for direct comparison. Cross references are provided for questions posed in both surveys for comparison but denominated with different numbers in the respective surveys. Part of the questions were posed only in the 2021 survey. Some questions/answers serve as filters for a differentiated analysis according to stakeholder categories, engagement in networking activities, or stakeholder participation and non-participation in project interventions. For more details about the methods of data collection and analysis see Grossmann et al. 2020 and Grossmann and Patko 2024. The reuse potential of this data set lies in the opportunity to assess project outcomes with further stakeholder categories in correlation with respondents’ (non-)participation in project interventions. No further legal or ethical considerations need to be taken, as all individual respondent sets have been fully anonymized.