WBL: Enforcement Perceptions, Safety, Public authorities enforce existing legislation addressing child marriage

The indicator assesses expert perceptions of the extent to which public authorities enforce existing legislation addressing child marriage 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