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

For CH3CHF2 (Ethane, 1,1-difluoro-)

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 -0.000937 -0.007012 -0.007012 -0.004757 -0.014158 -0.014896 -0.015857 -0.074802 -0.075405 -0.027034 -0.091175 -0.068060 -0.009436 -0.057729 -0.119060 -0.011112 -0.066347 -0.121419 -0.011488 -0.069142
B2PLYP=FULL -0.000282 -0.002061 -0.002061 -0.001400 -0.004155 -0.004365 -0.004640 -0.021176 -0.021355 -0.007816 -0.025919 -0.019294 -0.002763 -0.016603   -0.003257 -0.019042   -0.003365 -0.019829
Quadratic configuration interaction QCISD(T)=FULL         -0.013715           -0.094132   -0.008742 -0.058562   -0.010396 -0.067858      
Coupled Cluster CCSD=FULL         -0.013567         -0.026709 -0.093400 -0.070171 -0.008636 -0.058087   -0.010276 -0.067668      
CCSD(T)=FULL         -0.013717           -0.094131 -0.070520 -0.008742 -0.058571   -0.010397 -0.067867      
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