# 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