Over-dispersed Count data for number of journal articles published by university lecturers

The data set contain counts of number of articles published by Covenant University Lecturers, in Ota, Ogun State, Nigeria. Being a sample of 126 lecturers; 99 from College of Business and Social Sciences, and 27 from College of Leadership of number of articles published by the lecturers from 2013-2015. The response variable was the number of article produced by lecturer (NOP) which was obtained by counting. Predictors are Gender of lecturers (SEX), male was coded 1, and female as 0, marital status (MS), married was coded as 1 and single as 0, number of child(ren) of lecturer, (CHD), years of teaching/lecturing (EXP), cadre indicating whether senior or junior lecturer, Assistant lecturer and lecturer II were categorized as Lower cadre, and coded as 0, while lecturer I up to professor were categorized as higher cadre, and coded as 1. Another predictor is number of undergraduate course(s) taught within the period of observation (UGC), and number of postgraduate course(s) taught within the period of observation (UPC)..

本数据集统计了尼日利亚奥贡州奥塔市科维南特大学（Covenant University）讲师的学术论文发表数量。本次研究的样本包含126名讲师，其中99名来自商业与社会科学学院，27名来自领导力学院，统计周期为2013年至2015年。响应变量为讲师论文产出数（Number of Articles Produced, NOP），通过人工计数获取。预测变量包括：讲师性别（Sex, SEX），其中男性编码为1，女性编码为0；婚姻状况（Marital Status, MS），已婚编码为1，未婚编码为0；讲师子女数量（Number of Children, CHD）；从教年限（Years of Teaching Experience, EXP）；职称层级：将助理讲师与二级讲师归类为低级职称，编码为0，一级讲师及以上至教授归类为高级职称，编码为1；观测期内讲授的本科课程数量（Undergraduate Courses Taught, UGC）；以及观测期内讲授的研究生课程数量（Postgraduate Courses Taught, UPC）。