# How to download data excluding removed participants

**URL:** <https://forum.dimagi.com/t/how-to-download-data-excluding-removed-participants/1728>\
**Category:** Users\
**Created:** [April 30, 2014, 6:38pm UTC](https://forum.dimagi.com/t/how-to-download-data-excluding-removed-participants/1728 "2014-04-30T18:38:46Z")\
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**Author:** ![Jemo307](https://dimagi.b-cdn.net/letter_avatar_proxy/v4/letter/j/f17d59/32.png) [@Jemo307](https://forum.dimagi.com/u/Jemo307)\
**Post date:** [April 30, 2014, 6:38pm UTC](https://forum.dimagi.com/t/how-to-download-data-excluding-removed-participants/1728/1 "2014-04-30T18:38:46Z")

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Hi, I am familiar with creating custom exports but I don't see how I can  
download data from any form that ONLY includes active participants for  
example, or excludes those who have withdrawn. Is there any way to do this?

Thank you!  
jessica

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**Author:** ![Sheel\_Shah](https://dimagi.b-cdn.net/letter_avatar_proxy/v4/letter/s/779978/32.png) [@Sheel\_Shah](https://forum.dimagi.com/u/Sheel_Shah)\
**Post date:** [May 1, 2014, 5:33pm UTC](https://forum.dimagi.com/t/how-to-download-data-excluding-removed-participants/1728/2 "2014-05-01T17:33:29Z")

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Hi Jessica,

Can you clarify what you mean by "Active" participants? If participants  
are not the mobile workers for your application, you may need to filter the  
data in Excel.

If your participants are the mobile workers for the application, you can  
create an "Active Mobile Workers" group that includes only those active  
mobile workers. The exports should then let you only download data for a  
specific mobile worker group. Here is a reference on creating mobile  
worker groups:  
[https://confluence.dimagi.com/display/commcarepublic/Mobile+User+Groups](https://confluence.dimagi.com/display/commcarepublic/Mobile+User+Groups)

Thanks,  
Sheel

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> On Wed, Apr 30, 2014 at 2:38 PM, wrote:
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> > Hi, I am familiar with creating custom exports but I don't see how I can  
> > download data from any form that ONLY includes active participants for  
> > example, or excludes those who have withdrawn. Is there any way to do this?
> > 
> > Thank you!  
> > jessica
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