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

For CH2CHF (Ethene, fluoro-)

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 -0.000865 -0.005103 -0.005103 -0.003636 -0.011745 -0.012276 -0.012820 -0.055780 -0.056204 -0.019385 -0.067242 -0.050830 -0.007028 -0.043503 -0.087068 -0.008073 -0.049766 -0.088829 -0.008322 -0.051659
MP3=FULL         -0.011445   -0.027670                          
B2PLYP=FULL -0.000261 -0.001511 -0.001511 -0.001077 -0.003466 -0.003619 -0.003775 -0.015859 -0.015986 -0.005652 -0.019217 -0.014467 -0.002076 -0.012580   -0.002386 -0.014353   -0.002458 -0.014887
Quadratic configuration interaction QCISD(T)=FULL         -0.011477           -0.069854   -0.006537 -0.044467   -0.007571 -0.051225   -0.007815 -0.053262
Coupled Cluster CCSD=FULL         -0.011341         -0.019089 -0.069230 -0.052688 -0.006445 -0.044088 -0.089816 -0.007468 -0.050830 -0.091663 -0.007710 -0.052833
CCSD(T)=FULL         -0.011481           -0.069847 -0.052991 -0.006538 -0.044472 -0.090634 -0.007572 -0.051231 -0.092493 -0.007816 -0.053269
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