these statistics should also be interpreted with caution as expenditure is also influenced by the extent to which these indicators cover private settings and private expenditure by the decision of some countries to consider some ecec programmes outside the scope of the isced classification or by the impossibility of providing reliable statistics to international organisations for example the absence of data on private expenditure and private institutions in brazil and switzerland is likely to understate the true level of expenditure and enrolment in early childhood education programmes isced and may affect the comparability of the data with other countries inferences on access to and quality of ecec should therefore be made with caution consequently early childhood educational development programmes isced are not reported in some oecd countries namely belgium french community the czech republic france ireland italy japan luxembourg the netherlands poland portugal the slovak republic and switzerland or data are missing in some countries such as the flemish community of belgium and the united states