st: Poisson or ordered logit/probit

[Tinna <statalist@gmail.com>]

Dear Statalisters,

If my dependent variable isn't really a COUNT measure, but an ordinal
measure of something else (in my case self assessed health status),
can I still use the Poisson estimation? What are the cons of don't
that? Why is e.g. ordinal logit or ordinal probit better?

Thanks
Tinna

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