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WBL: Enforcement Perceptions, Work, Public authorities enforce existing legislation prohibiting discrimination in recruitment based on marital status, parental status, or age

The indicator assesses expert perceptions of the extent to which public authorities enforce existing legislation prohibiting discrimination in recruitment based on marital status, parental status, or age 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).