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

For CH2PH (Phosphaethene)

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 cc-pVQZ aug-cc-pVDZ aug-cc-pVTZ aug-cc-pVQZ cc-pV(T+d)Z aug-cc-pV(T+d)Z
Moller Plesset perturbation MP2=FULL -0.002011 -0.007518 -0.014896 -0.004912 -0.015842 -0.016569 -0.017299 -0.142366 -0.142887 -0.028650 -0.046922 -0.009841 -0.058283 -0.080955 -0.011388 -0.064532 -0.082893 -0.119988 -0.121224
MP3=FULL         -0.015207   -0.021089                     -0.119636 -0.120897
MP4=FULL   -0.007150     -0.015421       -0.143675     -0.009293 -0.059019   -0.010859 -0.065531   -0.121412 -0.122681
B2PLYP=FULL -0.000644 -0.002324 -0.004583 -0.001513 -0.004819 -0.005030 -0.005252 -0.041313 -0.041471 -0.008655 -0.013828 -0.003025 -0.017404   -0.003497 -0.019199   -0.035446 -0.035803
Coupled Cluster CCSD=FULL         -0.014970         -0.027119 -0.047047 -0.008944 -0.057651 -0.081312 -0.010464 -0.064101   -0.119288 -0.120540
CCSD(T)=FULL         -0.015335           -0.047817 -0.009222 -0.058792 -0.082828 -0.010774 -0.065283 -0.084761 -0.121047 -0.122307
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 cc-pVQZ aug-cc-pVDZ aug-cc-pVTZ aug-cc-pVQZ cc-pV(T+d)Z aug-cc-pV(T+d)Z