HEartS Professional Survey: Charting the effects of COVID-19 on working patterns, income, and wellbeing among performing arts professionals in the United Kingdom (April–May 2021)

These data were collected using the HEartS Professional Survey II from
performing arts workers in the United Kingdom in April–May 2021. HEartS
Professional II is an adaptation of the HEartS Professional I survey which
was used in April–June 2020 (https://doi.org/10.5061/dryad.s7h44j14z).
Both surveys were designed as multi-strategy data collection tools with
two main purposes: (1) to chart working patterns, income, sources of
support, and indicators of mental and social well-being 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.
The HEartS Professional surveys are adaptations of the Depression,
loneliness, online survey, pandemic, performing arts professionals, Social
Isolation, UK adult sample, well-being, Work which charts the Health,
Economic, and Social impacts of the ARTs
(https://doi.org/10.5061/dryad.3r2280gdj).