<div dir="ltr"><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0in 0in 0.0001pt;line-height:normal;font-size:12pt;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif"><span style="background-color:transparent;font-family:Arial;font-weight:700;white-space:pre-wrap;font-size:small">North American DDI 2019 conference: Registration open</span><br></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.38;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt"><span style="font-family:Arial;color:rgb(34,34,34);background-color:transparent;font-weight:400;font-style:normal;font-variant:normal;text-decoration:none;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap">Registration is now open for the 7th Annual </span><a href="http://naddiconf.org/2019/" target="_blank" style="color:rgb(17,85,204);text-decoration:none"><span style="font-family:Arial;color:rgb(17,85,204);background-color:transparent;font-weight:400;font-style:normal;font-variant:normal;text-decoration:underline;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap">North American Data Documentation Initiative Conference (<span class="gmail-il">NADDI</span>)</span></a><span style="font-family:Arial;color:rgb(34,34,34);background-color:transparent;font-weight:400;font-style:normal;font-variant:normal;text-decoration:none;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap">.  The conference theme is "Benefits of Describing Statistical Production and Variables," which emphasizes the benefits of using metadata to drive efficiencies in a research data lifecycle, as well as promotes subsequent re-use of end data products, especially those generated by federal and national statistical agencies.  The Data Documentation Initiative (DDI) is an international standard for describing the data produced by surveys and other observational methods in the social, behavioral, economic, and health sciences.</span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0in 0in 0.0001pt;line-height:normal;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif"><b id="gmail-m_4969248567011644441gmail-docs-internal-guid-f10bd2bd-9178-d760-0185-a43393323148" style="color:rgb(34,34,34);font-family:Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;font-style:normal;font-variant-ligatures:normal;font-variant-caps:normal;letter-spacing:normal;text-align:start;text-indent:0px;text-transform:none;white-space:normal;word-spacing:0px;background-color:rgb(255,255,255);text-decoration-style:initial;text-decoration-color:initial;font-weight:normal"><br></b></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.38;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt"><span style="font-family:Arial;color:rgb(34,34,34);background-color:transparent;font-weight:700;font-style:normal;font-variant:normal;text-decoration:none;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap">Important Information</span></p><ul style="margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt"><li style="margin-left:11pt;list-style-type:disc;font-family:Arial;color:rgb(34,34,34);background-color:transparent;font-weight:400;font-style:normal;font-variant:normal;text-decoration:none;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap"><p style="line-height:1.38;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt"><span style="font-family:Arial;color:rgb(34,34,34);background-color:transparent;font-weight:700;font-style:normal;font-variant:normal;text-decoration:none;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap">March 29</span><span style="font-family:Arial;color:rgb(34,34,34);background-color:transparent;font-weight:400;font-style:normal;font-variant:normal;text-decoration:none;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap">: Early-bird registration deadline</span></p></li><li style="margin-left:11pt;list-style-type:disc;font-family:Arial;color:rgb(34,34,34);background-color:transparent;font-style:normal;font-variant:normal;text-decoration:none;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap"><p style="line-height:1.38;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt"><b>Free Workshops</b>: April 24, 2019</p></li><li style="margin-left:11pt;list-style-type:disc;font-family:Arial;color:rgb(34,34,34);background-color:transparent;font-weight:400;font-style:normal;font-variant:normal;text-decoration:none;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap"><p style="line-height:1.38;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt"><span style="font-family:Arial;color:rgb(34,34,34);background-color:transparent;font-weight:700;font-style:normal;font-variant:normal;text-decoration:none;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap">Conference Dates</span><span style="font-family:Arial;color:rgb(34,34,34);background-color:transparent;font-weight:400;font-style:normal;font-variant:normal;text-decoration:none;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap">: April 25-26, 2019</span></p></li><li style="margin-left:11pt;list-style-type:disc;font-variant-numeric:normal;font-variant-east-asian:normal;vertical-align:baseline"><p style="line-height:1.38;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt"><span style="color:rgb(34,34,34);font-family:Arial;font-style:normal;font-variant:normal;font-weight:700;white-space:pre-wrap;text-decoration:none;background-color:transparent;vertical-align:baseline">Conference Location</span><span style="color:rgb(34,34,34);font-family:Arial;font-style:normal;font-variant:normal;font-weight:400;white-space:pre-wrap;text-decoration:none;background-color:transparent;vertical-align:baseline">: </span>Statistics Canada, Ottawa, ON</p>
</li></ul><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0in 0in 0.0001pt;line-height:normal;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif"><b style="color:rgb(34,34,34);font-family:Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;font-style:normal;font-variant-ligatures:normal;font-variant-caps:normal;letter-spacing:normal;text-align:start;text-indent:0px;text-transform:none;white-space:normal;word-spacing:0px;background-color:rgb(255,255,255);text-decoration-style:initial;text-decoration-color:initial;font-weight:normal"><br></b></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.38;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt"><span style="font-family:Arial;color:rgb(34,34,34);background-color:transparent;font-weight:700;font-style:normal;font-variant:normal;text-decoration:none;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap"><span class="gmail-il">NADDI</span> 2019 Agenda</span></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.38;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt"><span style="font-variant-numeric:normal;font-variant-east-asian:normal;vertical-align:baseline">Anil Arora, Chief Statistician of Canada, will open NADDI 2019 on April 25th with a keynote presentation, "Enabling Modernization of Official Statistics with Metadata Standards."<br><br>Free pre-conference workshops will be held on A<font color="#000000" face="Arial"><span style="white-space:pre-wrap">pril 24th, with the main conference held April 25-26.  </span></font></span><span style="background-color:transparent;font-variant-numeric:normal;font-variant-east-asian:normal;font-family:Arial;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap">The full agenda is on the conference </span><a href="http://naddiconf.org/2019/NADDI2019-Program-Format.pdf" target="_blank" style="text-decoration-line:none"><span style="font-family:Arial;background-color:transparent;font-variant-numeric:normal;font-variant-east-asian:normal;text-decoration-line:underline;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap">web site</span></a><span style="background-color:transparent;font-variant-numeric:normal;font-variant-east-asian:normal;font-family:Arial;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap">.</span><br></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0in 0in 0.0001pt;line-height:normal;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif"><b style="color:rgb(34,34,34);font-family:Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;font-style:normal;font-variant-ligatures:normal;font-variant-caps:normal;letter-spacing:normal;text-align:start;text-indent:0px;text-transform:none;white-space:normal;word-spacing:0px;background-color:rgb(255,255,255);text-decoration-style:initial;text-decoration-color:initial;font-weight:normal"><br></b></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.38;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt"><span style="font-family:Arial;color:rgb(34,34,34);background-color:transparent;font-weight:700;font-style:normal;font-variant:normal;text-decoration:none;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap">How to Register</span></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.38;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt"><span style="font-family:Arial;color:rgb(34,34,34);background-color:transparent;font-weight:400;font-style:normal;font-variant:normal;text-decoration:none;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap">Registration is found on the conference </span><a href="http://naddiconf.org/2019/#register" target="_blank" style="color:rgb(17,85,204);text-decoration:none"><span style="font-family:Arial;color:rgb(17,85,204);background-color:transparent;font-weight:400;font-style:normal;font-variant:normal;text-decoration:underline;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap">web site</span></a><span style="font-family:Arial;color:rgb(34,34,34);background-color:transparent;font-weight:400;font-style:normal;font-variant:normal;text-decoration:none;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap">.  The deadline for early-bird registration is March 29, 2019.</span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0in 0in 0.0001pt;line-height:normal;font-size:12pt;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif"><span style="font-family:Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;font-size:small"><br></span></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.38;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt"><span style="font-size:9.5pt;font-family:Arial;color:rgb(34,34,34);background-color:transparent;font-weight:400;font-style:italic;font-variant:normal;text-decoration:none;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap">Sent on behalf of the <span class="gmail-il">NADDI</span> 2019 Organizing Committee</span></p></div>