Economic Resources Shaping Grandparent Responsibility Within Three-Generation Households.

The purpose of this descriptive study was to explore factors associated with perceptions of grandparent responsibility for grandchildren in three-generation households, focusing especially on a comparison of grandparents' and parents' financial contributions to the household and ethnicity of grandparent(s). The analysis used information about three-generation families in the 2011-2015 American Community Survey, retrieved through the Integrated Public Use Microdata Series. In 30% of these families, grandparents said they were "primarily responsible" for the grandchildren, even though the child's parent was also in the household.

[Answer to Comment on article "Mortality in the elderly: A socio-spatial analysis based on the degree of social deprivation"].

In this letter, the authors respond to the comment received, arguing that the main contribution of their article was to show that the place of habitual residence, as well as the sex and age of the individual, determine the main causes of mortality among Mexican older adults.

[Mortality in the elderly: A socio-spatial analysis based on the degree of social deprivation].

Background: Mortality in Mexico has decreased substantially in the last years; however, there are segments of the population that experience social deprivation.

Objective: To identify and describe at the national level the causes of death by degree of social deprivation (DSD), age and sex.

Methods: We analyzed variables from the Censo de Vivienda y Población (Census of Population and Housing) and data from statistics of mortality and DSD, all information corresponding to 2010.