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

The data set contain counts of the number of articles published by Covenant University Lecturers, in Ota, Ogun State, Nigeria. Being a sample of 126 lecturers; 99 from the College of Business and Social Sciences, and 27 from the College of Leadership of the number of articles published by the lecturers from 2013-2015. The response variable was the number of articles produced by the lecturer (NOP) which was obtained by counting. Predictors are Gender of lecturers (SEX), the male was coded 1, and female as 0, marital status (MS), married was coded as 1 and single as 0, the 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 the 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)..本数据集收录了尼日利亚奥贡州奥塔市Covenant大学（Covenant University）讲师发表的学术论文数量。本次研究样本共包含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，统计时段为2013年至2015年，采集了该时段内各讲师的发文量数据。 响应变量为讲师的论文产出数量（Number of Published Articles, NOP），通过直接计数方式获取。 预测变量包括：讲师性别（SEX），其中男性编码为1，女性编码为0；婚姻状况（MS），已婚编码为1，未婚编码为0；讲师子女数量（CHD）；教学/授课年限（EXP）；职称层级，其中助理讲师、二级讲师被划归为低级职称层级，编码为0，一级讲师至教授被划归为高级职称层级，编码为1；观测时段内讲授的本科课程数量（UGC）；以及观测时段内讲授的研究生课程数量（UPC）。