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The Agency for Social Analyses (ASA) in Bulgaria is celebrating its 25th anniversary
ESS ERIC Administrator, ESS ERIC HQ ...I am just sorry that Sir Roger Jowell – co-founder of the (International Social Survey Programme – ISSP) and European Social Survey (ESS) – is no longer with us as I am sure he would have liked to pass on his admiration for... a quarter of a century (Bulgaria) being on the world map of academic social survey research - first with the ISSP since 1994 and then with the ESS since 2005.
Prof. Rory Fitzgerald; Director, ESS ERIC City, University of London Dear Lilia, You made a very significant contribution to the overall direction of the ESS…acted as an advocate for the ESS, never giving up on the quest to get Bulgaria to become a member of ESS ERIC... On behalf of the ESS I would like to thank you for your commitment to the survey and infrastructure. I know that Roger Jowell was also very grateful for your work.
... The Bulgarian experience, and the exchanges between countries and the Methodological committee, is clearly an element of survey quality that was of prime importance in the country as well as for the ISSP as a whole. And of course, we hope that such a cooperation will last for many years.
pas Dean of the Faculty of Social Sciences; Tel Aviv University, Israel; Former General Secretary of the ISSP Dear Lilia,...Your pointed comments during our General Assembly discussions have been invaluable,
and your contributions to the development of the Work Orientation module, on
which we worked together, were always on target...
Department of Sociology, University of Graz; Member of the Austrian Academy of Sciences, Vienna; Lecturer at the Universities of Vienna, Graz, Corvinus University Budapest and Charles University Prague; Founding member of the ISSP ...Dr. Dimova is one of the most reliable participants in the annual ISSP Working Conferences. Through her many valuable comments and proposals during those meetings she also made valuable contributions to the topics and questionnaires developed by ISSP...Виж целия текст...
...From its very beginning in 1994, having fulfilled the methodological and funding requirements to run Bulgaria"s ISSP appropriately and with a long-term perspective, ASA became a highly welcomed member of the International Social Survey Programme (ISSP)… Виж целия текст...  Knut Kalgraff Skjåk, Norway Associate Director of the NSD, Norway; Former General Secretary of the ISSP …Since Bulgaria became a member of the ISSP in 1994, ASA has made important contributions to the ISSP… fielded almost all ISSP modules, producing stable and long-term time series...and has contributed to the ISSP methodology in general…Виж целия текст...  Dr. Jarè Struwig, South Africa Chief Research Manager; Democracy, Governance and Service Delivery (DGSD) Human Sciences Research Council (HSRC) …Throughout the years Bulgaria played a vital role in the ISSP, both in terms of contributing to theoretical arguments and in terms of practical suggestions on survey content.. and we hope to continue serving on the ISSP together with Lilia for the next 25 years! Виж целия текст... Dr. Mahar Mangahas, The Philippines President, Social Weather Stations …we have known and enjoyed the stimulating company of Lilia Dimova all these many years…
Dr. Markus Quandt, Germany The head of the Research Data Center International Survey Programmes at GESIS Leibniz Institute for the Social Sciences The team leader for the ISSP Data Archive. …we extend our sincere thanks to the ASA staff … for being such reliable partners in the production of high-quality comparative survey data!
Dr. Miloslav Bahna, Slovakia at the Slovak Academy of Sciences …Thanks to the Agency for Social Analyses (ASA) Bulgaria has its place on the “map” of global comparative survey research…
Professor Jonas Edlund , Umeå University, Sweden ...Over time Bulgaria has regularly taking an active part in the ISSP and thereby contributed to the programme’ s success...
Academic Supervisor and Archive Council Chair; Deputy Director of the Levada Center. Dr. Olga Karaeva, Levada-Center, Russia …despite (financial) difficulties, all these 25 years Lilia Dimova has been a very active and effective representative of Bulgaria in the overall ISSP team…
Bulgaria was among the first post-communist countries that joined the International Social Survey Program (ISSP). Thanks to the relentless effort to raise funding, The Agency for Social Analysis (ASA) was able to guarantee Bulgaria’s participation in this international program since 1994. As a Czech representative in the ISSP, I had many opportunities to work with our colleagues from ASA and always enjoyed the scientific exchanges with prof. Lilia Dimova and others. I always appreciated their professionalism and their dedication to the survey quality and rigorous data analysis. The representatives of ASA always provided valuable insights to survey development, methodology, and analysis of topics such as social inequalities (gender, ethnic, generational, rural v/s urban), poverty, deprivation, social exclusion and inclusion, ethnic, national and European identities, Roma issues and anti-Roma xenophobia, labor market and employment, quality of life. Thanks to their experience and dedication to data quality and evidence-based social analysis, it is possible to study the Bulgarian society in comparative perspective and to advance the knowledge about societal change in Europe in the last three decades.
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Ms. Mary Keane, City University of London
Professor Noah Lewin-Epstein, Israel 
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