You have: 
@{$tbls{'12p'}} =  [ 't72', 't73', 't74', 't75', 't76', 't77' ];

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Are you certain you don't want: 
$tbls{'12p'} = [ 't72', 't73', 't74', 't75', 't76', 't77' ];

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In addition, you can clean up your code considerably with the qw operator, eg.: 
$tbls{'12p'} = [ qw/ t72 t73 t74 t75 t76 t77 / ];

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Update: I also see a loop that starts: 
for $b (0 .. $#price) {
...

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Are you running with use strict? If not, you probably should be.

Update: One more thing--looping over indices is rarely needed, and makes for ugly code. I think your loops should be more like: 

for my $price (@price) {
    $sql = 'SELECT respondent FROM';
    for my $table (@{$tbls{$price}}) {
        ...
    }
}

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This saves you the mental overhead of having to process all those array lookups.

In reply to Re: Mixing up indices in multidimensional hash by trammell
in thread Mixing up indices in multidimensional hash by punch_card_don

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