# Data provenance — F6-conf-02

## `gc5y_daily.csv` (2498 rows)
Observed data: Government of Canada benchmark bond yield, 5-year (Bank of Canada Valet series `BD.CDN.5YR.DQ.YLD`, business-daily, percent), taken from the Valet group `bond_yields_benchmark`.
- URL: `https://www.bankofcanada.ca/valet/observations/group/bond_yields_benchmark/json?start_date=2010-01-01&end_date=2019-12-31` (raw response SHA-256 `ccd9ec57b87ffd1194fe248cec327acf08e90608d2419b435955563d5824928e`), retrieved 2026-10-30T03:23:28Z. Only the 5-year series was kept from the response.
- Columns: `date` (YYYY-MM-DD, business days on which the Bank published a yield), `yield_5y` (percent, as published), `post_cut` (integer indicator added by the task author: 1 for dates on or after 2020-03-04, the first business day after the Bank of Canada's 50-basis-point emergency reduction of the policy rate announced on 2020-03-04, and 0 otherwise).
- Terms: Bank of Canada Terms of Use, https://www.bankofcanada.ca/terms/ (reproduction permitted for non-commercial purposes with attribution; source: Bank of Canada).
- SHA-256 of `gc5y_daily.csv`: `2cdda6ccb2147c8861997166cb0d32cf85ff2744e1e7c0f47eded0f354c2db51`