# Panels

NGSurvey provides you with an extensive set of features to manage a panel of external entities eg: contacts, employees, business partners, students etc ... 

The main benefits of a panel is that you can have a centralized set of data that can you can reuse for [reporting](/form-management/reports.md), [survey distribution ](/form-management/campaigns/campaign/panels.md)or [filtering](/form-management/reports/filters.md) without having all the time to duplicate this information.

Instead of having for example to ask each time your customers for the same information (eg: name, country, age etc..) you can centralize all this information once for all in a panel, create the corresponding [panelists](/panels/panelists.md) and then just attach your surveys to that panel. Its even possible afterward to analyze and aggregate survey results with the panel information of the panelists who took the survey.

![](/files/-MC2WwW949vUBRMB_bgE)

Each panel is composed of a set of [attributes](/panels/untitled.md) that you can use to create your panelists. As attributes are based on the standard [answer types](/form-management/form-designer/answers/answer-types.md) system you may reuse any existing answer type (fields, dates, countries ...) to build your [panelists](/panels/panelists.md) structure.

## Panel management

The panel management screen gives you an overview of all the panels that have been created and allows you to manage these panels or to create new one. 

![](/files/-MC2rp78X--IMYocLAf5)

1. Overview of your existing panels and [panel views](/panels/panel-views.md).
2. Create a new panel using one of the [panel connectors](/panels/panel-connectors.md).
3. [Panel information](/panels/panel-information.md).


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