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Explores how urban residents define neighborhood & whether their definitions influence their answers to other survey questions, drawing on data from a 1988 survey in Nashville, TN (N = 994 individuals from 514 households). Analysis reveals that territorial meanings predominate among respondents when neighborhood is considered in the abstract, although few definitions are exclusively territorial in nature. At a more concrete level, individuals living near one another often give the same name for their neighborhood of residence but differ markedly in their reports of the area's physical size & complexity. Such differences do not have much impact on answers to vague-referent questions about neighborhood life (ie, questions in which the concept of neighborhood is left undefined). The fact that at least some survey results appear relatively insensitive to respondents' definitional idiosyncrasies should reassure researchers, though it is recommended that a few items be included in survey instruments to help clarify people's understanding of neighborhood & other "quasi-factual" geographic concepts. 2 Tables, 28 References. Adapted from the source document.