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WBL: Enforcement Perceptions, Marriage, Public authorities enforce a married woman's right to not be required to obey her husband

The indicator assesses expert perceptions of the extent to which public authorities enforce a married woman's right to not be required to obey her husband in practice. Experts rate enforcement on a five-point Likert scale (0–4), where 0 indicates no enforcement of protective or beneficial laws, no upholding of women’s rights, or full enforcement of restrictive laws, and 4 indicates full enforcement of protective or beneficial laws, the full upholding of women’s rights, or no enforcement of restrictive 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, please refer to the WBL Methodology Handbook (link:https://wbl.worldbank.org/content/dam/sites/wbl/documents/2026/WBL-Methodology-Handbook-2026-FINAL.pdf).