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Energy differences between frozen core and all electrons correlated.
MP2, MP3, MP4, B2PLYP, CCSD, and CCSD(T)

For CH2Br2 (dibromomethane)

Energies in Hartree
Methods with standard basis sets
STO-3G 3-21G 3-21G* 6-31G 6-31G* 6-31G** 6-31+G** 6-311G* 6-311G** 6-31G(2df,p) 6-311+G(3df,2p) TZVP cc-pVDZ cc-pVTZ cc-pVQZ aug-cc-pVDZ aug-cc-pVTZ aug-cc-pVQZ daug-cc-pVDZ daug-cc-pVTZ
Moller Plesset perturbation MP2=FULL -0.000489 -0.008297 -0.022204 -0.022587 -0.059742 -0.060194 -0.061724 -0.807623 -0.807998 -0.175805 -0.906343 -0.148470 -0.018545 -0.107395 -0.190871 -0.023377 -0.121080 -0.196244 -0.024879 -0.127505
MP3=FULL         -0.055989   -0.090218                          
MP4=FULL   -0.007920     -0.057964       -0.761578   -0.854351   -0.018697 -0.104145   -0.022464     -0.023928 -0.123747
B2PLYP=FULL -0.000151 -0.002512 -0.006771 -0.006643 -0.018266 -0.018397 -0.018847 -0.236982 -0.237092 -0.053966 -0.266041 -0.043977 -0.005695 -0.032130   -0.007154 -0.036030   -0.007608 -0.037888
Quadratic configuration interaction QCISD(T)=FULL         -0.057482           -0.840546   -0.017270 -0.101226   -0.021975 -0.114382   -0.023407 -0.120399
Coupled Cluster CCSD=FULL         -0.056246         -0.163670 -0.831611 -0.132795 -0.016463 -0.097768 -0.174521 -0.020952 -0.110818 -0.179540 -0.022328 -0.116789
CCSD(T)=FULL         -0.057438           -0.840220   -0.017250 -0.101054 -0.178852 -0.021932 -0.114193      
STO-3G 3-21G 3-21G* 6-31G 6-31G* 6-31G** 6-31+G** 6-311G* 6-311G** 6-31G(2df,p) 6-311+G(3df,2p) TZVP cc-pVDZ cc-pVTZ cc-pVQZ aug-cc-pVDZ aug-cc-pVTZ aug-cc-pVQZ daug-cc-pVDZ daug-cc-pVTZ