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

For C6H5CHO (benzaldehyde)

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 daug-cc-pVDZ daug-cc-pVTZ
Moller Plesset perturbation MP2=FULL -0.003275 -0.013695 -0.013695 -0.010692 -0.037336 -0.038317 -0.039354 -0.149792 -0.150664 -0.063154 -0.178237 -0.136422 -0.019699 -0.122465 -0.225494 -0.022575 -0.145811 -0.023244 -0.148861
MP3=FULL         -0.036735   -0.057582                        
B2PLYP=FULL -0.000992 -0.004096 -0.004096 -0.003192 -0.011051 -0.011332 -0.011637 -0.042841 -0.043103 -0.018447 -0.051268 -0.039048 -0.005875 -0.035559   -0.006730 -0.042182 -0.006927 -0.043052
Coupled Cluster CCSD=FULL         -0.036368         -0.062990   -0.142344 -0.018119 -0.125427   -0.020936      
CCSD(T)=FULL         -0.036815               -0.018398            
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 daug-cc-pVDZ daug-cc-pVTZ