Convenience Sample ?

If you are trying to identify a population representing a rare event,
say here in the U.S. and let's say for example you, call each State's
capital office of economic development and ask, in your State, in
which jurisdictions\counties, might I find manufacturing businesses 2
years old, owned by minority folk and whose revenues doubled from
year 1 to year 2.


I've made up the following, just to illustrate my question.


My guess is this population would be pretty small. So I might be
provided a list of counties, but the office doesn't have a specific
tracking process in place, it's more based on the anecdotal
experience
of the person I am talking with and their knowledge of the State's
business community, so they name a number of jurisdictions\counties
in
their State, so I call these counties' chamber's of commerce to
assist
in ID'ing the population. In the end it is highly unlikely I'll
capture the population, so this is my question, 1) do I technically
end up with a sample (non-probability of course) and 2) could I
consider it a convenience sample?


Any input would be appreciated on this, thanks.

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  • Convience sampling
    ... capital office of economic development and ask, in your State, in ... might I find manufacturing businesses 2 ... so I call these counties' chamber's of commerce to assist ... consider it a convenience sample? ...
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  • Re: Convenience Sample ?
    ... capital office of economic development and ask, in your State, in ... business community, so they name a number of jurisdictions\counties ... My view is that it is a convenience sample because it is based on the ... visible such businesses. ...
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