HEartS Professional Survey: Charting the effects of COVID-19 lockdown 1.0 on working patterns, income, and wellbeing among performing arts professionals in the United Kingdom (April–June 2020)

These data were collected using the HEartS Professional
Survey from performing arts workers in the United Kingdom in
April–June 2020. HEartS Professional was designed as a
multi-strategy data collection tool with two main purposes: (1)
to chart working patterns, income, sources of support, and indicators of
mental and social wellbeing in order to identify trends in the effects of
the lockdown at the time and (2) to explore the individual work
and wellbeing experiences of performing arts professionals in their own
words, in order to identify the subjective effects of lockdown in terms of
challenges and opportunities. The survey covers six areas: (1)
demographics, (2) information on illness or self-isolation related to
COVID-19, (3) work profiles and income, (4) changes to work profiles and
income as a result of the pandemic, as well as sources of support, (5)
open-response questions about work and wellbeing experiences of lockdown
including challenges and opportunities, and (6) validated measures of
health, wellbeing, and social connectedness. HEartS
Professional is an adaptation of the HEartS
Survey which charts the Health, Economic, and Social impacts of
the ARTs (https://doi.org/10.5061/dryad.3r2280gdj).