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title: "Manage Survey Data Sources"
description: "Upload, view, and manage survey data from compensation data providers with Data Sources. These data sources will power your benchmarks within Pave."
canonical_url: "https://support.pave.com/articles/manage-survey-data-sources-sr925x10RZ"
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# Manage Survey Data Sources

Upload, view, and manage survey data from compensation data providers with Data Sources. These data sources will power your benchmarks within Pave.

**[Video on uploading a new data source](https://www.loom.com/share/faa2a498d4984e8ba055c39a420467d4)**

## Create a new survey data source

To create a new survey data source:

1. Go to Market Pricing > Band Set > Benchmarking > Data Sources

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2. Click **Upload survey**

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3. Select the survey file from your computer
4. Map the relevant columns in the survey file to Pave's properties and click **Next**

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5. Fix any errors and **Save**

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6. Add a descriptive Survey name and choose a Survey provider

   * The value in Survey provider will be used as the column header when mapping job families, job levels, pay zones, and overrides. This value can be any string, but we recommend using a consistent naming convention for similar surveys to simplify the mapping process (e.g. `Radford`or `WTW`). This value has no impact on the parsing of data slices from the survey upload.
   * Optional: Use Tags for easy filtering/searching from the surveys list later (e.g. `United States`)
   * Optional: Use Survey effective date if you plan to age your survey data

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7. **Save** the survey. Pave will immediately begin processing the survey data. Once complete, you will receive a notification and the data is ready for use.

## Edit a survey data source

To edit a survey data source:

1. Go to Market Pricing > Data Sources
2. For the relevant data source, click on **(…) > Survey details**

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1. Make edits to survey details and click **Update**

:::info
Note: To update data within a data source, you must delete the data source and create a new one with the updated data.
:::

## Delete a survey data source

To delete a survey data source:

1. Go to Market Pricing > Data Sources
2. For the relevant data source, click on **(…) > Delete**
3. Confirm by clicking **Delete** in the modal

   * Note: deleting a survey data source will automatically delete the associated data slices from all benchmarks.

## View a survey data source

After creating a data source, you can explore the parsed values in Data Sources. This provides a more detailed view of the processed survey data. You can also download the original data source CSV.

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