Give an example of how convenience sampling could be used in a study of Fortune 500 executives to measure corporate attitude toward paternity leave for employees.

In order to collect convenience samples of Fortune 500 executives to measure corporate attitude towards paternity leave for employees, a researcher can contact the HR of any Fortune 500 company, and ask her to share the data for paternity leaves granted to its' employees for the last year.

Sample collected through this technique is convenient because it allowed the researcher to gather a moderate quantity of data without much effort. However, the data is might not be representative of the population characteristic in the study.