# Digital Life Index Data and Documentation License

Except where otherwise noted, original derived datasets, figures, charts, and documentation produced specifically for the Digital Life Index by Jheelum Sarkar are licensed under the Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International License (CC BY 4.0). This includes the original derived materials in `assets/data/digital_life_state_year.csv`, `assets/data/state-year-digital-life-index.dta`, and `assets/data/README_Digital_Life_Atlas.md`, as well as original project figures and documentation.

Copyright © 2026 Jheelum Sarkar.

License: [Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International](https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/).

This license applies only to original derived Digital Life Index materials produced by Jheelum Sarkar. It does not claim ownership of, or change the terms governing, underlying source data from the U.S. Census Bureau, Bureau of Labor Statistics, or other third-party sources; those data remain governed by their source agencies' terms and attribution practices. It does not apply to unrelated content elsewhere in this repository.

Third-party components and materials, including Plotly.js, topology assets, and externally loaded fonts, retain their own licenses and terms and are not relicensed under CC BY 4.0 by this document.

These terms apply to original Digital Life Index materials as the project is updated, unless a material is otherwise noted.