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

For C3H6O (2-Propen-1-ol)

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) TZVP cc-pVDZ cc-pVTZ aug-cc-pVDZ aug-cc-pVTZ
Moller Plesset perturbation MP2=FULL -0.001422 -0.006771 -0.006771 -0.005028 -0.016858 -0.017850 -0.018331 -0.074382 -0.075195 -0.030299 -0.068096 -0.009827 -0.060370 -0.011255 -0.070485
MP3=FULL         -0.016504   -0.017987       -0.070969 -0.009232 -0.061868    
MP4=FULL   -0.006449     -0.016585       -0.078122     -0.008473 -0.059927 -0.010622 -0.072805
B2PLYP=FULL -0.000429 -0.002015 -0.002015 -0.001495 -0.004979 -0.005263 -0.005404 -0.021214 -0.021457 -0.008817 -0.019444 -0.002915 -0.017487 -0.003338 -0.020361
Quadratic configuration interaction QCISD(T)=FULL         -0.016533             -0.009158 -0.059630 -0.012497 -0.071705
Coupled Cluster CCSD=FULL         -0.016334           -0.070861 -0.009020 -0.061551 -0.010413 -0.072475
CCSD(T)=FULL         0.007913           -0.071295 0.012142 -0.027955 -0.012477 -0.074387
STO-3G 3-21G 3-21G* 6-31G 6-31G* 6-31G** 6-31+G** 6-311G* 6-311G** 6-31G(2df,p) TZVP cc-pVDZ cc-pVTZ aug-cc-pVDZ aug-cc-pVTZ