HEartS Professional Survey: Charting the effects of COVID-19 on working patterns, income, and wellbeing among arts professionals in China (October 2020, August 2021)

These data were collected using the HEartS Professional China survey from
performing arts workers in China in October 2020 and August 2021. HEartS
Professional China is an adaptation of the HEartS Professional surveys
which were used in 2020-2021. All the 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 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, 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 HEartS Survey which
charts the Health, Economic, and Social impacts of the ARTs
(https://doi.org/10.5061/dryad.3r2280gdj).