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

For CH3CH2CHO (Propanal)

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 daug-cc-pVDZ daug-cc-pVTZ
Moller Plesset perturbation MP2=FULL -0.001441 -0.006738 -0.006738 -0.005002 -0.016924 -0.017981 -0.018471 -0.074377 -0.075241 -0.032029 -0.088924 -0.068124 -0.009907 -0.060409 -0.114545 -0.011469 -0.070730 -0.117140 -0.060408 -0.011820 -0.073093
MP3=FULL         -0.016596   -0.018148       -0.092175 -0.071013 -0.009313 -0.061953           -0.011220  
MP4=FULL   -0.006422     -0.016672       -0.078178   -0.092901   -0.009288 -0.062216   -0.010845 -0.073302     -0.011193 -0.075971
B2PLYP=FULL -0.000435 -0.002005 -0.002005 -0.001488 -0.004999 -0.005301 -0.005445 -0.021213 -0.021472 -0.009303 -0.025497 -0.019457 -0.002939 -0.017498   -0.003402 -0.020433     -0.003505 -0.021106
Quadratic configuration interaction QCISD(T)=FULL         -0.016621           -0.092764   -0.009235 -0.062150   -0.010787 -0.074370     -0.011135 -0.075910
Coupled Cluster CCSD=FULL         -0.016435         -0.032096 -0.091897 -0.070917 -0.009105 -0.061619 -0.118930 -0.010638 -0.072788     -0.010982 -0.075427
CCSD(T)=FULL         -0.016627           -0.092753 -0.071342 -0.009237 -0.062159   -0.010789 -0.068915     -0.011137 -0.075918
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 daug-cc-pVDZ daug-cc-pVTZ