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

For CH2Cl2 (Methylene chloride)

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 cc-pV(T+d)Z cc-pCVTZ Sadlej_pVTZ daug-cc-pVDZ daug-cc-pVTZ
Moller Plesset perturbation MP2=FULL -0.000562 -0.010361 -0.025300 -0.006681 -0.024721 -0.025107 -0.026326 -0.116637 -0.117001 -0.049009 -0.213048 -0.071530 -0.014726 -0.082924 -0.153631 -0.017473 -0.091129 -0.156783 -0.225133 -0.723837 -0.098456 -0.018277 -0.094050
MP3=FULL         -0.022859   -0.024416       -0.207975 -0.070117 -0.012944 -0.079567             -0.098113 -0.016271 -0.090890
MP4=FULL   -0.009633     -0.023259       -0.117607   -0.210978   -0.013298 -0.081294   -0.016029 -0.089805       -0.099511 -0.016808 -0.092781
B2PLYP=FULL -0.000171 -0.003145 -0.007610 -0.002023 -0.007398 -0.007508 -0.007873 -0.033588 -0.033696 -0.014544 -0.061776 -0.020887 -0.004452 -0.024547   -0.005272 -0.026873   -0.065588 -0.205843 -0.028354 -0.005513 -0.027712
Quadratic configuration interaction QCISD(T)=FULL         -0.023175           -0.210423   -0.013230 -0.081007   -0.015918 -0.089480       -0.099337 -0.016695 -0.092449
Coupled Cluster CCSD=FULL         -0.022672         -0.044417 -0.207810 -0.070019 -0.012813 -0.079387 -0.150074 -0.015410 -0.087785       -0.098195 -0.016169 -0.090720
CCSD(T)=FULL         -0.023167           -0.210367 -0.071050 -0.013220 -0.080966 -0.152661 -0.015897 -0.089433 -0.155829     -0.099287 -0.016673 -0.092401
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 cc-pV(T+d)Z cc-pCVTZ Sadlej_pVTZ daug-cc-pVDZ daug-cc-pVTZ