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COVID-19 Translators Freelancer 3 Survey Data: Hopeful for the Future!
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August 21, Kathmandu-
In January 2021, CSA Research surveyed freelance linguists worldwide for the third time
to see how the COVID-19 pandemic has affected them as providers of language services.![](https://adhikpost.com/wp-content/uploads/2021/08/fig-1-COVID-19-Effects-on-Freelance-Linguists-as-of-January-2021-300x142.png)
These are the overall results from the 608 responses received from 69 countries in January 2021.
to see how the COVID-19 pandemic has affected them as providers of language services.
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These are the overall results from the 608 responses received from 69 countries in January 2021.
The percentage of freelancers reporting decreases in income is slightly decreasing. It was 56% back in April last year, then 55% in August 2020, and now 52%.
Machine translation post-editing has grown more steadily than human-centric translation even before the pandemic and still continues to do so.
Optimism about the first half of the year is comparable to our August results (44% now versus 46% in August). However, data shows a little uptick for the second half of the year.
Courtesy: CSA research: https://csa-research.com/Featured-Content/COVID-19-Industry-Data-Research/Freelancer-3-Survey