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WBL: Enforcement Perceptions, Childcare, Public authorities enforce existing legislation establishing support for nonstate childcare providers

The indicator assesses expert perceptions of the extent to which public authorities enforce existing legislation establishing support for nonstate childcare providers in practice. Experts rate enforcement on a five-point Likert scale (0–4), where 0 indicates no enforcement of laws establishing support for families for childcare services and 4 indicates full enforcement of such laws.

Enforcement perceptions indicator-level score is contingent upon the score of the corresponding legal frameworks indicator and calculated by taking the median value of individual expert responses on the five-point Likert scale (0–4) at the economy level. For indicators that correspond to a partially scored legal frameworks indicator, a weighted approach is applied. For details on underlying questions and scoring assumptions, please refer to the WBL Methodology Handbook (link: https://wbl.worldbank.org/content/dam/sites/wbl/documents/2026/WBL-Methodology-Handbook-2026-FINAL.pdf).