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title: Movesense Data Format
description: This article will help you understand how your downloaded Movesense data is organized with Labfront into timestamped folders by task and data type.
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# Movesense Data Format
## This article will help you understand how your downloaded Movesense data is organized with Labfront.
#### - 👨🔬 For Researchers -
ECG and 9-axis IMU data are available with Labfront's [Movesense integration](https://help.labfront.com/movesense-overview?hsLang=en).
In this article, we'll cover:
- [How Movesense folders are organized](https://help.labfront.com/movesense-data-format#folders)
- [How the CSV files are organized](https://help.labfront.com/movesense-data-format#CSV)
- [Additional resources to help with your data](https://help.labfront.com/movesense-data-format#additional)
### How the Folders are Organized
Labfront creates a single ZIP file of all of your participants' data, labeled with your unique **Project ID.**
As you can see below, each participant has their own folder labeled with their **Participant Insignia** (name inputted by the researcher) and **Participant ID** (unique identifier).
.png?width=580&height=72&name=HC__Data__File__Movesense__Participant%20(1).png)
In the participant folder are CSV files organized into subfolders by data source and/or tasks. Your Movesense physiological data CSV files will be located in the *movesense-stream *folder.
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Each Movesense task has its own folder named after the task, containing subfolders for each instance (labeled with the Unix timestamp) and the collected **data types** (IMU, RR-Interval, and/or ECG).
For example, here is an *Exercise Recovery* task that was completed twice. You can see the timestamped subfolders for each instance of the task and subfolders for each data type collected (*movesense-stream-imu* and *movesense-stream-rr*):
.png?width=688&height=87&name=HC__Data__File__Movesense%20(1).png)
Movesense tasks are organized this way because each task can record *lots* of data, and can use different sensors at different resolutions, but they should all be contained together for easier analysis.
**Note**
You will also see a *movesense-stream-stopwatch-event *file. This file does not contain physiological data but displays when participants stopped and started the Movesense task and keeps a record of each instance.
.png?width=623&height=80&name=HC__Data__File__Movesense-Stream__Stopwatch%20(1).png)
### How Movesense CSV Files are Organized
The CSV files in every folder are numbered beginning with 000000. If a file exceeds the maximum amount of rows permitted, a new CSV file will be created and numbered sequentially (Ex. 000001, 000002, etc.).
.png?width=550&height=118&name=HC__Data__File__Movesense-Stream-ECG%20(1).png)
#### Header
Your project, participant, and task details are located in the Headerof every CSV file. The **Header length** (in this example it's 5) means that the subsequent 5 rows are part of the Header and do not contain participant data.
.png?width=688&height=236&name=HC__Data__File__Movesense__Header%20(1).png)
For a list of variables included in the Header and their descriptions, you can view this table:
#### Participant Data
Within each data type's CSV file, each row represents one data recording.
Sample IMU data:
.png?width=688&height=366&name=HC__Data__File__Movesense__IMU%20(1).png)
Sample ECG data:
.png?width=688&height=339&name=HC__Data__File__Movesense__ECG%20(1).png)
Sample RR-Interval data:
.png?width=688&height=339&name=HC__Data__File__Movesense__RRI%20(1).png)
👀 [View our documentation on Movesense data types and descriptions→ ](https://help.labfront.com/data-documentation?hsLang=en#movesense)
### .png?width=29&height=29&name=image%20173%20(2).png) Data Documentation Resource
Access our data documentation PDF for a data dictionary of metrics you can collect with Labfront and their meanings.
### ➕ Additional Information About Your Data
For a better understanding of your data, we suggest reading the following articles:
- [Data Overview: How Data is Organized in Labfront](https://help.labfront.com/how-data-is-organized?hsLang=en)
- [To-Do, Timer and Questionnaire Data Documentation](https://help.labfront.com/task-and-questionnaire-data-documentation?hsLang=en)
- [Understanding Timestamps in Labfront](https://help.labfront.com/understanding-timestamps?hsLang=en)
- [Data Types You Can Collect with Movesense](https://help.labfront.com/movesense-data-types?hsLang=en)
- [Data Documentation: Movesense Data Types and Descriptions](https://help.labfront.com/data-documentation?hsLang=en#movesense)
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### FAQs
#### **Why does Labfront use Unix time?**
The Unix timestamp is the number of seconds between a particular date and the Unix Epoch (Jan 1, 1970). Since this point in time technically does not change no matter where you are located on the globe, it's very useful for accurately comparing and manipulating dates and times across different platforms and time zones.
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