Annual data therefore tend to give overestimates of the degree of persistence in benefit receipt, and this effect is sizable when benefit spells are short and repeat benefit receipt is common. Month-to-month entry rates into benefit of around 0.4% to 0.6% in Norway and Sweden are substantially higher than those for Latvia, Luxembourg and the Netherlands, which fluctuate around or below 0.1 % (top-left panel of Figure 8). This is in contrast to results in Figure 7, which showed that annual transition rates did not vary much across countries towards the end of the observation period.